Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:35:03 -0000 From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@eilio.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Random complete lockups while writing to compact flash... Message-ID: <20031231133008.G69497@gandalf.eilio.com>
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Hi - I have an EBS-1569PS system... http://www.orbitmicro.com/products/embedded%20systems/EBS-1569PS.htm ... that has an onboard compact flash slot. The BIOS sees the card as ad2. It's also got a hard drive in there that I've installed 4.9 on. I'm getting random lockups while writing to that flash card. Here's what I'm doing: fdisk -BI ad2 disklabel -Bw ad2s1 auto disklabel -e ad2s1 (creating a single a partition) newfs /dev/ad2s1a mount /dev/ad2s1a /mnt setenv DESTDIR /mnt cd /path/to/4.9-RELEASE/bin sh install.sh This then copies over all those files onto /mnt. Sometimes it works fine, but most of the time I get a complete lockup somewhere through the process. Never happens at the same file, never happens at the same time (sometimes very early, sometimes very late). No logs. Can't ping. CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work. Nothing. I'm going to go buy another flash card and give that a try since maybe I've just got a bad one, but if anyone has any other ideas (like perhaps the computer hardware is just broken when it comes to writing to that flash card) I'd appreciate hearing about it before I tear all my hair out. Thanks! -philip
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