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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: TS-7400 SD Card Boot Problem
From: "David Farrell" <>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:39:04 -0000
Thanks, the sdcard.o with a filesize of 20708 bytes will let my
TS-7400 with TS-Linux mount my 2GB SD card.  A see a sdcard-sdhc.o
driver on ftp too. Will the sdcard.o support SDHC cards?  Should I try
sdcard-sdhc.o? I have no SDHC cards yet but I am curious.

Regards,

David.

--- In  Michael Schmidt <> wrote:
>
> David Farrell wrote:
> > I have a new TS-7400 128MB, OP-BBRTC, TS-DC420-ENC.
> > The 512MB SD dev card boots fine. I dd the card to a
> > A-Data 2GB card and resize the 3rd partition, it will
> > not boot.
> > 
> > The linuxrc script fails to load the sdcard driver!
> > 
> > I manually "insmod -q -f /sdcard.o dmaenable=1" the driver loads.
> > (dmesg indicates 3994624 sectors, stcard0a: p1 p2 p3)
> > 
> > I now cannot successfully "mount -o ro /dev/sdcard0/disc0/part3
/mnt/root"
> > I get Invalid argument.
> > 
> > (dmesg says VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev sdcard0(254,3).
> > 
> > ls /dev/sdcard0/disc0 shows 254,3 as part3.
> > 
> > (dmesg also indicates yaffs: dev is 65027 name is "fe:03")
> > 
> > "dd if=/dev/sdcard0/disc0/part3 of=/dev/null count=256" works fine.
> > 
> > busybox fdisk indicates sector size of 1024?  This same card on my
> > linux desktop fdisk indicates 512 byte sectors.
> > 
> > I there a new sdcard.o? Mine has a filesize of 19396. I see all kinds
> > of sdcard.o file sizes in the various places of the TS ftp site.
> 
> It looks like the latest sd card driver wasn't pushed out to
production. 
>   I'll look into getting that done.  In the mean time, if you are 
> experiencing this problem it appears to be fixed in the newest driver, 
> which is here:
>
ftp://ftp.embeddedARM.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7200-linux/binaries/ts-modules/sdcard.o
> 
> Please let me know if you have any problems with the new version.
> 
>  > David.
> 
>   ______   Best Regards,
> |__  __/                  Michael Schmidt
>     ||                   Software Engineer
>     ||echnologic Systems (EmbeddedARM.com)
>     || (480)    16610 East Laser Drive #10
>     |/ 837-5200   Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
>         http://oz.embeddedarm.com/~michael
>



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