Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:29:21 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Message-ID: <05e5c4129170d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <00d201c19c0c$c513e300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <0235a2158050d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> <00d201c19c0c$c513e300$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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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.)
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