Jan Stary wrote:
would you please share the RELEVANT PORTION OF YOUR DMESG for the card (and
your opinions if you'd like)? I'm particularly interested in what's
reported for x-sector PIO and related.
It might be a bit late, but ...
$ dmesg | grep wd
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <CF 4GB>
wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3823MB, 7831152 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
$
This is on 4.5. I use that card in my Alix-based firewall. So far I
didn't have any problems with it.
Some time ago, it was suggested that the "1-sector PIO"
is what's occasionaly "slow" about some of these cards
(e.g. when untarring a big tgz during an install).
Sadly, I have never seen any multi-sector PIO card.
And obviuosly, I will be upgrading soon (ALICes, actually).
Can people recommend some quality multi-sector PIO CF cards?
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFX-1024>
wd0: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 977MB, 2001888 sectors
This is a SanDisk CF card I got some years ago. I think it's an
Ultra-II card, but I'm not 100% sure. It works fine in my Soekris box.
Maurice
