[SPARCbook] Callunacard mystery.

[Scott D. Yelich]

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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, arno uhlmelmahei wrote:
> Magnus Sjoegren wrote:
> >   Article: <199909101031.MAA18533 at swi.priv.at>
> >   Date:    Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:31:59 +0200 (MEST)
> >   Author:  Markus Mayer <e9325155 at stud4.tuwien.ac.at>
> > 
> > > I'm sorry I can't help you with your problem. But I can tell you that you
> > > are not alone. I've experienced the same behaviour when I try to use my
> > > PCMCIA 'hard-disk'. Copying files on the device works fine (I copied about
> > > 60 MB on the PCMCIA-card).
> > >
> > It is still help and if we get more people with the same symptoms we can
> > pretty much rule out hardware fault.
> 
>     I have tried to reproduce this without
>   success on a 3gx with both a calluna 170
>   and 260meg card. I copied files larger than
>   3megs to and from the cards. I too am running 
>   5/98 2.6 with sun's and tadpole's patches. 
>   I also can't reproduce the xserver crashes 
>   that were previously mentioned on the list.

Maybe there isn't a problem on the GX?  Was the original poster on a GX
or GS?  I have a GS and I can tell you that my call260 exhibits the
exact same behaviour (using 2.6)... and I haven't tried it under 2.5.1
- -- but under 2.5.1 it seems as if I have to mount it with a "c:" and the
disk can't be partitioned/newfs'd as a unix file system.  I was going to
use CFS on mine (under 2.6) but uf I have to revert to a pcfs just to
use it, I will do that and use it as a scratch pad instead.  *sigh*.

Arno -- you've mentioned a few times that your card works.  I'm happy
for you -- but there is diffenately more than one other person out there
who has a call260 that doesn't work.

Scott


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