[Grml] CF card not detected in PCMCIA adapter

[John Magolske]

I have a CF card plugged into a SanDisk CompactFlash PC Card Adapter
inserted into the PCMCIA slot of an X40 ThinkPad running grml 1.1
(installed to hard disk).

The CF card shows up fine when used in conjunction with a USB
cardreader or an ide-CF adapter. But with the PCMCIA adapter it
doesn't seem to be detected; the CF card does not show up under
/dev/disk/by-id.

Booting the machine with the CF-card/PCMCIA-adapter inserted causes
the boot process to hang at "Waiting for /dev to be populated..."

Booting first then inserting the CF-card/PCMCIA-adapter I see:


% dmesg
...
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
cs: memory probe 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff: excluding 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff
cs: memory probe 0xd0200000-0xdfffffff: excluding 0xd0200000-0xd11fffff
0xd1a00000-0xd21fffff 0xd2a00000-0xd31fffff 0xd3a00000-0xd81fffff
0xd8a00000-0xd91fffff 0xd9a00000-0xda1fffff 0xdaa00000-0xdb1fffff
0xdba00000-0xdc1fffff 0xdca00000-0xdd1fffff 0xdda00000-0xde1fffff
0xdea00000-0xdf1fffff 0xdfa00000-0xe01fffff
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
scsi0 : pata_pcmcia
ata1: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0x00013100 ctl 0x0001310e bmdma 0x00000000 irq 3
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91)
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4)
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91)
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4)
ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91)
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4)
ata1: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4)


% pccardctl -v ls
Socket 0 Bridge:        [yenta_cardbus]         (bus ID: 0000:02:00.0)
        Configuration:  state: on       ready: unknown
                        Voltage: 3.3V Vcc: 3.3V Vpp: 0.0V
Socket 0 Device 0:      [pata_pcmcia]           (bus ID: 0.0)
        Configuration:  state: on
        Product Name:   SanDisk SDP 5/3 0.6
        Identification: manf_id: 0x0045 card_id: 0x0401
                        function: 4 (fixed disk)
                        prod_id(1): "SanDisk" (0x7a954bd9)
                        prod_id(2): "SDP" (0x91844b1c)
                        prod_id(3): "5/3 0.6" (0xaac4295b)
                        prod_id(4): --- (---)


Searching the net I found:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116613


Thanks for any help or suggestions,

John


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John Magolske
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