Kingston 4GB compact flash erroneously thought to have 'hdf' available

[David Pat Shui Fong]

Dear PCMCIA list,

Sadly, the problem I have posted about previously persists in 2.6.18-rc2.
2.6.18-rc2 I think reversed some patches available in later releases of 2.6.17-mm series which had resulted in a 'xxxxx not free....ports already in use' error.

/var/log/messages log from 2.6.18-rc2 shows...

Jul 16 18:58:19 muramasa kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Jul 16 18:58:19 muramasa kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Jul 16 18:58:19 muramasa kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
Jul 16 18:58:19 muramasa kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Jul 16 18:58:20 muramasa kernel: hde: CF500, CFA DISK drive
Jul 16 18:58:20 muramasa kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x0a)
Jul 16 18:58:20 muramasa kernel: hdf:                                        , ATA DISK drive
Jul 16 18:58:20 muramasa kernel: ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 4
Jul 16 18:58:20 muramasa kernel: hde: max request size: 128KiB
Jul 16 18:58:20 muramasa kernel: hde: 8060928 sectors (4127 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=15744/16/32
Jul 16 18:58:20 muramasa kernel:  hde: hde1
Jul 16 18:58:20 muramasa kernel: hdf: max request size: 512KiB
Jul 16 18:58:50 muramasa kernel: hdf: lost interrupt

I hope this problem is fixed sometime!

Cheerio, David.

> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:34:06 +1000
> From: David Pat Shui Fong <vkelim at bigpond.com>
> Subject: Trouble with 4GB Kingston CF and Ricoh RL5c476 Cardbus
> To: linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org
> Message-ID: <200607072334.06244.vkelim at bigpond.com>
>
> ...
>
> I am having trouble with using my 4GB compact flash (Kingston Ultimate
> 100x) in the compact flash slot of my Sharp Muramasa CV-50 (Ricoh RL5c476
> Cardbus).
>
> This has happened with the default SuSE kernel 2.6.16.13, and happens with
> 2.6.17.1, 2.6.17-mm5 and pcmciautils-013. The same problem does not seem to
> occur with a Sandisk 512 MB card. The following error messages occur in
> /var/log/messages ...
>
> [same as /var/log/messages in 2.6.18-rc2]
>
> The kernel repeatedly reports 'hdf: lost interrupt'. 'hdf' does not really
> exist, of course. Sometimes /proc/partitions shows that hde1 exists, but it
> cannot be mounted to a mountpoint.

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