Installation

Hello,

I am trying to copy/install wrap-1.3b13 on a CF-card with the command # gunzip -c wrap-*.img ¦ dd of=/dev/hdc bs=16k . A Transcend M5-RDM5W is used as
card reader(see c't 7-2008). Surprisingly that the card-reader is not recognised by WXP, but under slax 6.0.7 SD-cards are recognized.


With the following commands I tried to check, if the card reader is properly recognized:

root@slax:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Hi-Speed 21-in-1 Flash Card Reader/Writer (Internal/External)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a5c:201e Broadcom Corp. IBM Integrated Bluetooth IV
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
root@slax:~#


root@slax:~# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   7     1      49912 loop1
   7     2      34324 loop2
   7     3      41180 loop3
   7     4      24600 loop4
   7     5      17820 loop5
   7     6      18616 loop6
   3     0   39070080 hda
   3     1   15361888 hda1
   3     2    4173120 hda2
   3     3   19535040 hda3
root@slax:~#


root@slax:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs                  294M  2.4M  292M   1% /
/dev/hda1              15G  8.4G  6.3G  58% /mnt/hda1
/dev/hda2             4.0G  3.6G  460M  89% /mnt/hda2
/dev/hda3              19G  9.6G  9.1G  52% /mnt/hda3
root@slax:~#


After inserting the CF card to the ALIX.2C1 board the following message is displayed on Hyper Terminal:


PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99
640 KB Base Memory
130048 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 044A CF 1GB
Phys C/H/S 1966/16/63 Log C/H/S 983/32/63

Non-System disk or disk error
Replace and press any key when ready




Questions:
What an I doing wrong?


Thank's a lot for any help/feedback!

John

I don't think this will fix your problem but I noticed your BIOS is not current.

http://www.pcengines.ch/file/alixs099b.zip

CS...

Thank's a lot for the reply :-)

On an other WXP machine the CF-cardreader( Transcend M5-RDM5W) seems to be recognized (some minutes after inserting, 3 driver letters are shown in the File-Explorer)



Therefore I tiried it with the command "physdiskwrite wrap-1.3b13.img"


Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive0:
   Windows:       cyl: 4865
                  tpc: 255
                  spt: 63
   C/H/S:         16383/16/63
   Model:         HDS728040PLAT20              40Y9025LE
   Serial number:       PFD115S1T9M36M
   Firmware rev.: PF1OA29A

Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive1:
DeviceIoControl() failed on \\.\PhysicalDrive1.

Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive2:
DeviceIoControl() failed on \\.\PhysicalDrive2.

Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive3:
DeviceIoControl() failed on \\.\PhysicalDrive3.

Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive4:
DeviceIoControl() failed on \\.\PhysicalDrive4.

Which disk do you want to write? (0..0)



Obviously I didn't select PhysicalDrive0. That's my hd :-)

Thank's a lot for any feedback!

John

Sounds like you might have some bad hardware.  I've had really good luck with physdiskwrite (0.5.1) and XP.

CS...

Sounds like you might have some bad hardware.  I've had really good luck with physdiskwrite (0.5.1) and XP.

CS...

My brandnew Transcend M5-RDM5W seems to be broken because with an other CF card reader it does work...

Physdiskwrite (0.5.1) and XP did a great job :-)


Thank's a lot for the help!

John

I'm glad you got it going!

CS...