On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 20:26, Stan Gammons wrote: > I know it's ancient and minimal hardware, but I've been tinkering with > OpenBSD 5.5 on a Nokia IP260 with an 8GB compact flash. The OS was > installed on the compact flash using a card reader on a Dell laptop. > The OS boots and networking works as long as I specify the MAC using > lladdr in hostname.xxx and use duids. If you don't use duids the > partitions will not mount when the compact flash is moved from the > laptop to the IP260. But I see some errors on an 8GB compact flash that > I didn't see with a 1GB compact flash. Could it be the 8GB compact > flash is more than what the IP260 supported? Here's the dmesg
Could be. > wd0c: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying > wd0: soft error (corrected) > wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout > type: ata > c_bcount: 512 > c_skip: 0 > pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x61 > wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4 > wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4 > wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 > wd0c: device timeout reading fsbn 65 (wd0 bn 65; cn 0 tn 1 sn 2), retrying > wd0: soft error (corrected) > root on wd0a (511531c0c5c7c075.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b > clock: unknown CMOS layout This looks more like pciide controller issues. Either it or the CF aren't playing nice with each other. But once downgraded to PIO mode, it appears everything has been slowed down enough to work again.
