Installation

Hello,

I just bought the Transcend M5-RDM5W card reader(which was recommended in c't 7-2008), but I am unable to write wrap-1.3b13.img (ALIX2C1) to the CF. I tried it with Linux, WXP, FreeDOS


I think, it would make more sense to buy an other CF cardreader..  If possible it should work under Linux and WXP...


What card reader should I buy?


Thank's a lot for any help!

John






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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)
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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
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Just for your information:
The Transcend M5-RDM5W card reader was broken (new defective). I bought an other type and everything works fine now:-)

John