[SLUG] Problems with compactflash

From: Chuck Hast (kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 20:23:45 EDT


Folks:
I am new to this list, but have been enjoying it. Now I will pass a
question on to you all, I have a desktop running RH 7.1. I wanted
to be able to pull image files off of the compact flash cards my
camera uses, so I went out a purchased a Antec DataChute PCMCIA
PCI adaptor in order to put PCMCIA on my desktop machine.

I can put NIC cards, wireless NIC cards, modems, and serial port cards
in it and all appear to work just fine. But when I put a compact flash
card in it, the machine locks up. If I pop the card out the machine will
start to respond slowly and then finally you hear two beeps and things
are back to normal.

Below is a copy of the message log (/var/log/messages)

Aug 25 22:59:17 gecko cardmgr[1120]: starting, version is 3.1.22
Aug 25 22:59:17 gecko cardmgr[1120]: watching 2 sockets
Aug 25 22:59:17 gecko kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Aug 25 22:59:17 gecko kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f
0x4d0-0x4d7
Aug 25 22:59:17 gecko kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Aug 25 22:59:47 gecko cardmgr[1120]: initializing socket 0
Aug 25 22:59:47 gecko cardmgr[1120]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
Aug 25 22:59:48 gecko cardmgr[1120]: product info: "SunDisk", "SDP",
"5/3 0.6"Aug 25 22:59:48 gecko cardmgr[1120]: manfid: 0x0045, 0x0401
function: 4 (fixed disk)
Aug 25 22:59:48 gecko cardmgr[1120]: executing: 'modprobe ide-cs'
Aug 25 23:00:20 gecko kernel: hde: no response (status = 0xff)
Aug 25 23:00:39 gecko kernel: ide_cs: ide_register() at 0x110 & 0x11e,
irq 11 failed
Aug 25 23:00:40 gecko cardmgr[1120]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
Aug 25 23:00:40 gecko cardmgr[1120]: shutting down socket 0
Aug 25 23:00:40 gecko cardmgr[1120]: executing: 'modprobe -r ide-cs'

Here is what lsmod returns
 
Module Size Used by
ide-cd 26848 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 27232 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
via82cxxx_audio 17552 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 8800 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
soundcore 4464 2 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
autofs 11264 1 (autoclean)
ds 7280 2
yenta_socket 11440 2
pcmcia_core 43072 0 [ds yenta_socket]
3c59x 25344 1 (autoclean)
ipchains 38976 0 (unused)

And here is what "/proc/interrupts" shows
 
           CPU0
  0: 390856 XT-PIC timer
  1: 9035 XT-PIC keyboard
  2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
  8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
  9: 981 XT-PIC eth0, Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (#2)
 11: 1174828 XT-PIC Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II, via82cxxx
 12: 38792 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
 14: 6829 XT-PIC ide0
 15: 25208 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

This is a PCI device but it is grabbing ISA interrupts. Have any of
you tried to get one of these devices to work on your machine?

Tnx in advanced for your time.

-- 
Chuck Hast --- KP4DJT --- kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my
going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of
torn and twisted metal."



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