I'm running RedHat 6.1 on my laptop and the CF cards just work. The
cards show up as /dev/hde however, not /dev/hdb. Plug in your card and
watch the messages in /var/log/messages (I think, possibly also to the
console) to see what your computer is doing with the card. It should
have two beeps, showing that the card was recognized. It should also
print out the card's manufacture -- this shows that linux is
recognizing and reading the card, at least the low level ID info. This
is recognizing the CF hardware, not the partitioning and formatting.
I'm running CF cards (one 8Mbyte and one 64Mbyte) that plug into my
digital camera and were formatted by the camera to be a DOS file
system. I never tried to format the CF myself.
I'm a little confused with your description: first you say you have
errors fdisking the CF and then you say that you fdisk OK but have
problems formatting it. If you are getting errors running fdisk, all
bets are off on the format process.
gvb
At 09:27 AM 3/7/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I just got an IDE adaptor for compact flash cards with a few different
>compact flash cards (Sandisk 32MB and PQI 32MB).
>
>Is there a special driver needed to make these work with Linux 2.2.12 ?
>
>When I try to fdisk the device:
>fdisk /dev/hdb
>
>I get the error message
>hdb: drive cmd: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
>hdb: drive cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatus Error }
>
>It seems like these are slower than the IDE driver expects or
>something like that maybe...
>
>I can Fdisk the device, then when I format it as ext2, the partition
>table gets trashed. My BIOS settings are set to AUTO detect and
>the drive information is read when I reboot. However, If I change
>these settings and play with the LBA / BLOCK mode / CHS stuff - setting
>these to the values detected by the BIOS, *sometimes* it just hangs
>the system.
>
>Any clues on what to do next ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
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