Disable DMA on that drive. Thee HD/DOM/CF-card does not support DMA and linux tries to "DMA" it. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC</b>
<<a href="mailto:mojo@horanappraisals.com">mojo@horanappraisals.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For real! I see the BIOS, then I see GRUB "Loading stage 1.5" and then<br>a good 60 seconds go by before the kernel and initrd have been loaded<br>and control switches over to them.<br><br>Stock kernel on CentOS
4.4</blockquote><div><br></div></div><br>(gmail quoting stinks)<br>
Ed W, wrote<br>
>- Flash rewrites quite a few times<br>
>- The good stuff has wear levelling so that most roughly speaking the<br>
>whole thing should work until it suddenly all fails<br>
>- Given a big enough drive with a fair bit of free space then you should<br>
>find it hard to wear it out in less than quite a few years even if you<br>
>are hitting it quite hard (probably multiples of this). Simply do the<br>
>maths to get the rough life<br><br>In the last 2 years I have personally killed 2 DOMs of 512 MB. They where running Debian Sarge, and were set up to run on TMPFS. The reason why they died is because I tested the installation on those systems: this means zero out HDA and then copy it all over again from a backup.
<br><br>In real life, in real usage, I think those will last quite more, since the disk is not been written all that much. But still, be warned.<br>