Nathan Butcher wrote: > This is not a big issue in CURRENT, or is even much of a priority I > feel, but I thought I'd ask about it anyway. > > I have a compact flash reader inserted into the IDE port on my > motherboard. It can host two compact flash cards. Currently I have an > 8GB 133x compact flash and an 8GB 266x compact flash (both Transcend) in > the slots. > > What I find interesting is that the 8GB 266x compact flash appears in > dmesg as such:- > > ad5: FAILURE - SET_MULTI status=51 <READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4 <ABORTED> > ad5: 7775MB <TRANSCEND20070418> at ata2-slave UDMA66 > > It seems like I can write to it anyway, but I haven't tried yet. > What's the reason for the FAILURE? I assume it has something to do with > the faster write speed on the card. > > _______________________________________________ Afair it's a ATA command to set some specific variables, since your flash drives are not ATA drives, they appear to not support it [which sounds correct]. Cheers remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko_at_elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko_at_FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */Received on Wed Oct 10 2007 - 14:46:11 UTC
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