On 07/16/14 21:26, 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.
As expected. on your Dell, it's probably in a USB adapter, and comes up as an sd(4) device; on the IDE bus, it comes up as a wd(4) device. > 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 > > OpenBSD 5.5-current (GENERIC) #104: Sun May 11 07:51:32 MDT 2014 > dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC ...[snipped, but thanks for providing!]... > scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets > wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout > type: ata > c_bcount: 512 > c_skip: 0 > pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x61 > wd0c: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying ...[and slow, painful downgrade to PIO]... This might help: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#i386flash This will probably really hurt the performance on your hard disk as well, so it may not be worth doing; as it is, your system finds what each can do just fine on its own. But being this is a firewall, reboot time might mean more than disk througput... Nick.
