Re: Problems with ATA FLASH MEMORY

Joao Marigonda (joao_cesar@yahoo.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:04:06 -0800 (PST)


My flash memory is manufactured by hitachi and it doesnt work in LBA
but in NORMAL mode.
Would you please send me more details about your environment... (Is
your kernel 2.0.3x?)

Thanks a lot

---"B. James Phillippe" <bryan@terran.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > emulation. The problem for us turned out to be that the IDE
emulation
> > > reported the flash as being removable when it was not.
> >
> > The card it does it to me on is definitely removable, its PCMCIA
>
> Ours is the flash/IDE used in our Firebox-II (and later) model
firewalls.
> I think it is manufactured by Smart Modular Technologies. Here is
it's
> ident info:
>
> Model=, FwRev=Ver.7.0, SerialNo=
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM Removeable DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
> RawCHS=250/4/16, TrkSize=8448, SectSize=528, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=1(1Sect), BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=1, MultSect=off
> DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=no
> CurCHS=250/4/16, CurSects=16000, LBA=yes, LBAsects=16000
> IORDY=yes
>
> Note that it claims it is removeable, and lacks a Model and Serial
No. It
> is not removable though; it's soldered to the mainboard. :)
>
> -bp
> --
> B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org
> Software Engineer, WGT Inc. . http://www.terran.org/~bryan
>
>

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