Here's a problem that someone from another list is having. It's not an
electronics oriented list so the expertise there may be slim. I have no
experience in this area but feel sure several people here may be able to
comment usefully.


"I am still having some issues with the compact flash based drive system.
The Ampro bios sometimes needs a second power cycle to get it to boot from
the CF, and, more disturbing, I seem to get an occasional error while doing
disk access.  My previous attempts to use CF would always give errors to the
point that I couldn't get my Linux system installed, but moving to a
Synchrotech CF card (instead of the Kingston cards I had) let me get things
running.  However, I had some corruption during my first installation, and
now on the second installation (after reformatting with a full check for bad
blocks) I still get the compiler crapping out every once in a while with a
Signal 11.  If anyone has any relevant advice, please let me know.  I am
probably going to go back to the IDEFLASH drive that never gave me any
problems, but it is a shame to stack another board when the Ampro has the CF
slot built in."

All comments gratefully received.



            Russell McMahon

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