Compact Flash Card in PCMCIA Adapter

[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:55:40PM +0200, Felix Brack wrote:
> After some more testing I found that the problem must be related
> to a specific CF card from Transcend.

Aha.


> However when I insert the Transcend CF card it is not detected. I
> get the following information then:
> 
> from 'pccardctl status' (again socket 1 is the CF card):
> 
> Socket 0:
>   3.3V 32-bit PC Card
> Socket 1:
>   3.3V 16-bit PC Card
> 
> and from 'dmesg' I get only one line:
> 
> [ 5334.476000] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
> 
> This CF card (the one from Transcend that is not working) supports
> Ultra DMA; might this be the problem?

No, should work anyway.


> I really have no idea of what could be wrong. The tiny bit of
> output from 'dmesg' is not really helpful. Is there some kind
> of debugging I could enable to get more information?

The card ID needs to be included in ide-cs and pata_pcmcia to be
bound automatically. Can you try running:

pccardctl info
pccardctl ident

When the card is inserted?

Thanks.


//Peter