Hi!
We just received a brand new Fujitsu 96MB ATA Flash Disk
(Silicon Tech SLFLD25-96) and want to restore our backup we
made from the previous flash disk which we broke while
restoring the backup with dd.
The new IDE driver of the linux kernel has problems with
flash disks, that's why we use the 'old' kernel IDE driver.
dd'ing a few blocks is no problem, although sometimes
it sends some 'ide time out' messages to syslog.
dd'ing the whole flash disk was a problem: it worked until
block 455, then the whole system locked (after spewing out
'reseting IDE' every 6 seconds and occasionally 'too many
resets, bug in IDE controler (VIA 686), rewriting chip
configuration'
Now we have several theories:
- Flash Disk is no good. We have to switch to another brand
which is able to get dd'ed.
- South bridge is no good. Did anyone get bad results with
a VIA 686 (first version, very old, no B revision)?
- Driver is no good. Can someone post what driver (kernel version)
they are using successfully with their flash disk without
reset msgs ?
- dd is no good. Any other suggestions how to write the image
back to the disk?
BTW: A low level format utility for Fujitsu flash disks does
not exist, does it? Did anyone perhaps contact Fujitsu/Silicontech
about any similar problem and can share his/her experience ?
Thanks for any input,
Walter
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