From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 9:30: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 412C237B41A for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:30:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:29:41 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:29:21 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <0235a2158050d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> <00d201c19c0c$c513e300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> In-Reply-To: <00d201c19c0c$c513e300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <05e5c4129170d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 13 January 2002 03:31 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Brian writes: > > Surely if it fails under both FreeBSD > > and Windows there's a very strong suggestion > > that it's hardware problem, don't you think? > > No. Two entirely different types of hardware. The Windows machine has an > internal PCMCIA reader. The FreeBSD machine has an external USB CF reader. > There is practically nothing common about the hardware across the two > machines: they have different motherboards, processors, memory modules, > disks, disk interfaces, monitors, video cards, and so on. Therefore the > old standby of "it must be hardware" won't work. > > > FWIW, the easiest way to get things off of > > compactflash card is to use a PCMCIA adaptor. > > That's what I do on the Windows machine. However, the software I used to > use--a product that came from SystemSoft with the original internal PCMCIA > drive--stopped working after I installed ADSL, because of an IRQ conflict, > and I could not explicitly set IRQs for the SystemSoft module. So I > upgraded to a new version of the SystemSoft software that was supposed to > allow this, and it did--but it started causing blue screens and stalling of > the system regularly, so I had to abandon it. > > All I really want is to be able to read and write Compact Flash > cards--only--with this little USB reader, and I'd like to be able to do > that without stalling the system or corrupting the filesystems. But it > seems that even "reliable" FreeBSD cannot do that. If anybody ever told you that FreeBSD was more reliable or better with "unusual" hardware we were sold a bill of goods. The O/S is much more stable but hardware drivers consistently lag Windows. But if you swapped O/S's it would work quite nicely: The FreeBSD support for PCMCIA/flash is very stable. I use it all the time. One suspects the Windows would work a lot better with the USB reader as well. You just have the O/S's backwards :-( (FreeBSD USB support is still a little dicey.) -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message