Failing to get DMA working with MPC5200 (TQM5200) and CompactFlash

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sat Mar 27 09:44:32 EST 2010


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Wolfgang Wegner <wolfgang at leila.ping.de> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:32:02PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:22:32PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> >
>> > Not all CF adapters have all the pins wired up that are needed for
>> > *DMA modes.  That is the most likely problem.
>>
>> True, but we bought a card that specifically advertises support for
>> UDMA, and says UDMA right on the card's label.
>>
>> http://store.lexar.com/?productid=CF8GB-300-381
>
> Grant was referring to the adapter, not the card!
>
> In fact I still have to see a single CF-to-IDE adapter that does
> have the wires needed for (U)DMA without me soldering them in place...

I found one at logic supply a while back, but I can't remember which one!

g.


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