Hardware: Soekris Net4801 (ComBIOS 1.21), SanDisk 512MB Ultra Compact Flash
Software: 5.1-CURRENT
Symptom: ad0: FAILURE - SET_MULTI status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
error=4<ABORTED>
GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc47ffb70
ad0: 488MB <SanDisk SDFCH-512> [993/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4
Result: system boots normally and runs without problems
Hardware: Soekris Net4801 (ComBIOS 1.21), SanDisk 512MB Ultra Compact Flash
Software: 4.9-RC4
Symptom: Read error (BIOS? initiated)
Result: hung
Note: Hardware in scenario #1 and scenario #2 are the same pieces of
equipment
(not just similar).
Analysis(feeble):
This Compact Flash card does not support multi-sector transfers
required to boot. 5.1-CURRENT is compensating for this effect and
continues.
4.9-RC4 punts (returning an error to the BIOS?).
The recent delay of 4.9-RELEASE may indicate that there is some small window
in which to
obtain a fix for this problem in a "STABLE" release (before 5.2). I hope.
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