On 03/09/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eddie Hung wrote: > > I am pursuing another possibility: the CF card is not a genuine > > Sandisk one at all, especially as it was off eBay! I compared my > > hdparm -I with the one in the thread above (which as I've found out is > > a Sandisk Extreme II 4GB) and there are big differences, namely the > > model number, serial number and firmware version. > > > > This might explain everything! > > We still need to fix your device. :-) > Haha.. well if the CF card is cheap knockoff which doesn't support MDMA (or does it extremely, extremely badly) then we have our culprit! I am beginning to be more and more inclined to think that it's a fake (the packaging and presentation was the genuine deal, though!) - and I'm in touch with Sandisk to confirm. I've not found that much information on the Internet - but one particularly interesting post is that another user had bought a Kingston card off ebay, and his -I is very similar to mine. For the record: Kingston Elite Pro 45x (possibly fake): ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: SMI MODEL Serial Number: AS 0055FA00 Firmware Revision: 20070131 Source; http://1src.com/forums/showpost.php?p=993663&postcount=655 Don't forget my device works just fine with the original HDD, though! Eddie - 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
