From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 17:25:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B1037B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:25:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C656043E4A for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:25:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAC1PTFk096568 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:25:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id gAC1PSjt096565 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:25:29 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:25:28 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Complete lockup when using Compact Flash via ATA mode. Message-ID: <20021111172014.A96391-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi - I'm not sure I've got my terminology exactly right, but here's my problem. I've got a small server that has a compact flash card slot built-in so that it appears as a standard hard drive (the BIOS sees it as HDD2 and FreeBSD as /dev/ad2). I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto this drive from source cvsupped a day or two ago. However, part way through (and it's never at the same place) the entire machine completely locks up. No messages to the console, nothing in log files, zip. But the entire machine is completely frozen. Once I had it happen while doing a "rm -rf *" in the directory I'd mounted it to. However, I've also used rawio to write a 220 meg file (the card is 256 and freebsd says there's 222 available) without problems and set it to randomly write 1 meg files all night long and it was still up in the morning. So my question is do I have a flaky flash card? Or a bad controller of some sort? Or something else? And is there any way to figure out what it is (without purchasing more cards :) or map around the "bad spot" or? Server info: http://www.nexcom.com/product/ebc/ebs1569/1569ps.htm Thanks all! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message