Hi Mark, The device is a Nexcom NSA1083 appliance: http://www.nexcom.com/product/productshow.jsp?iid=13&pid=878 It's an OEM appliance that uses the Intel 965 chipset. We use it as one of three platforms for our access control and compliance products as it has 8 built in Ethernet ports and a dual core processor - with built in compact flash. The older appliance that this new (1083) one is superseding also had built in CF although this one apparently had separate PATA and SATA controllers, whereas the 1083 has only one 4 channel ICH8 Intel SATA controller which interfaces to one CF connector and one IDE connector via a SATA to PATA bridge ( I don't know exactly what this bridge is or how it interfaces to the SATA bus - but I can probably find this out from the manufacturer). The CF is a standard 512MB Sandisk/Kingston chip that we boot from and write configuration data to. I appreciate your offer to look at this issue and depending on where you are, we can probably ship you an appliance directly from Taiwan. The other option possibly is to get you/someone remote access into one of these units via the net, if that would help. The ridiculous thing is that we can boot off the CF with no problems and the libata/piix driver goes some way to recognizing that it's compact flash, so I believe the issue can't be too difficult to resolve - I just need someone with a bit of knowledge on the driver that can guide me through things to try or areas to look. Many thanks, > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Lord [mailto:liml@xxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:08 AM > To: Andrew Hall > Cc: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; robert.de.rooy@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: CF flash PATA on libata failure to attach > > Andrew Hall wrote: > >> This looks a lot like the other CF-card problem that was being > debugged > >> here over the past week -- the one where POLLING had to be turned > on. > >> Robert de Rooy (copied) was the reporter for that one. > >> Perhaps you two could compare notes ? > > Do you have a spare device you can send me? > > Or exactly what is this gizmo, anyway? > (brand, model, form factor ...) > > Thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
