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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
Solved, well almost..... I purchaed another HDD on which I installed Ubuntu 7.10 "Gusty Gibbon" AMD64 Alternate Install CD. The current release of Ubuntu has none of the afore mentioned problems with my "ENE 5-in-1" Memory Card Reader. It recognized the device immediately and automounted an 8GB Class 6 SDHC card. So at least I know the problem is software NOT hardware related. Also, since the SD Card Reader Driver is part of the Ubuntu Kernel, the source code is available; so I think, all I have to do to get this to work in Vista, if a future Vista or BIOS update doesn't fix the problem is install the "free" Trolltech Qt4 C++ development tools for Windows, which I assume supports the AMD64 platform, since the Linux version does and compile and install it in Vista, like any other driver. So not only do I know more about the problem; but now I have more than one option for solving it in Vista. BTW, I've posted the results of my experiences on one of the the Ubuntu Support Forums on the following thread: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20436 The 'business" portion of which, I've posted below: cyberfella, Just wanted to provide you and anyone else who reads this thread with an update: While experimenting in Gutsy I noticed the size of the Swap file was ~6.3GB in Vista it's ~7.5GB, so I though I'd better buy an 8GB SD card. So, yesterday I walked accross the street to Fry's Electronics and purchased a "PQI" 8GB "Class 6" (20MB/s R/W) SD card, with a "Lifetime Warranty." This set me back $69.95 +tax, which is 8.25% here in Los Angeles. Patriot, sells a similar card, with a Lifetime warranty, for $59.95 +tax; but they were out of stock. This sure beats the heck out of $189.95 +tax for the Sandisk Extreme III cards. Anyway, I didn't even know if my internal reader was SDHC compliant; so I made sure I could return the card to the store if it didn't work and made sure I preserved the packaging. When I got home I booted up "Good Ol' Gutsy," held my breath and inserted the SD card. It mounted almost immediately, leaving a beautiful SD icon on the Desktop. I opened the SD folder and made sure I could store a file in it then backed out and launched "GParted." I unmounted the card, which is "/dev/mmcblk9p1" on my system, deleted the original partition, created a new partition and formated it in "Linux Swap." This completed successfully. I then executed the instructions in the thread you pointed me to, which went something like: "sudo swapon -p 32767 /dev/mmcblk9p1" This completed successfully. I then rebooted.... What I experienced next was almost better than sex... "Dolce santa madre di Dios, countach, whoooosh!!!!" I've never seen Grub load so fast. After the boot phase where Grub counts down to allow you to press Escape for a boot menu, the Verbose portion of the boot that displays what is written to the Kernel Log (kern.log) just flashed by. The screen blinked twice and and the sliding bar animation loaded almost immediately and even this took less than 5 seconds to complete. Then the Login Screen came up next and I logged in as usual. Before I could blink an eye, the Desktop loaded. I tried performing the normal file, folder and application access tasks that are associated with any session; such as, opening files, folders, pulling down menus and launching applications. All of this and even my Screen Saver ran faster. I'm so so very glad I ignored your advice; however, I think a "RAID 0" configuration is a good idea. My next Laptop will have the following characteristics: **17" Display. **Dual SSD NAND Solid State HDDs in a "RAID 0" configuration; turning their native 50/45 MBs R/W speed into 100 MBs. **Intel "Core 2 Extreme Quad Processor" or AMD equivalent, if they ever come out with one... **x2 NVIDIA Graphics Cards or Chipsets in the case of Laptops to drive the Display or AMD equivalent. **8GB Ram. Preferably Dual Port DDR3 at 800MHz, which I'm not sure even exists yet. BTW, I also disagree about your assessment, that SD Cards cannot survive for long in this application. Microsoft's documentation states that their testing suggests that SD Cards can survive for 10 years being used this way. I got that from their own wedbsite. Also, the SD Card R/W mechanism is designed to SPREAD the writes evenly on the entire address space on the card; though I'm not sure if this is accomplished in hardware, software or both. Well, I hope this puts this argument to rest and thanks again for directing me to this thread: 'How to: ReadyBoost with Ubuntu Linux - Ubuntu Forums' (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=395435) -John -- coljohnhannibalsmith I love it when a plan comes together. It keeps me "on the jazz!" |
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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
You've done an impressive amount of work on this. I am going to pass
this on to some folks at MS. On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:14:01 -0600, coljohnhannibalsmith wrote: Solved, well almost..... I purchaed another HDD on which I installed Ubuntu 7.10 "Gusty Gibbon" AMD64 Alternate Install CD. The current release of Ubuntu has none of the afore mentioned problems with my "ENE 5-in-1" Memory Card Reader. It recognized the device immediately and automounted an 8GB Class 6 SDHC card. So at least I know the problem is software NOT hardware related. Also, since the SD Card Reader Driver is part of the Ubuntu Kernel, the source code is available; so I think, all I have to do to get this to work in Vista, if a future Vista or BIOS update doesn't fix the problem is install the "free" Trolltech Qt4 C++ development tools for Windows, which I assume supports the AMD64 platform, since the Linux version does and compile and install it in Vista, like any other driver. So not only do I know more about the problem; but now I have more than one option for solving it in Vista. snip -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
BTW, I would be curious as to whether Vista SP1 has any impact on
your issue. On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:14:01 -0600, coljohnhannibalsmith wrote: Solved, well almost..... -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
To the best of my understanding, SP1 is due in late January and the current release schedule for BIOS updates for my unit has been about 90 days. Since the last update was released on Oct 24th, 2007, the next one will be due around the same time. I'll try to make sure I test after installing each, to isolate this further. -John -- coljohnhannibalsmith I love it when a plan comes together. It keeps me "on the jazz!" |
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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
Here same problem with MSI PR200 (MS-1221) with Core 2 Duo T8100 and 4 GB RAM, with Vista Business x64 SP1. This notebook has ENE card reader, and with drivers version 3.00.04 (2007-03-01) I'm suffering BSOD randomly. With drivers uninstalled the system seems totally stable. Any news around this problem? -- morrallas |
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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
BIOS update from MSI?
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:04:19 -0500, morrallas wrote: Here same problem with MSI PR200 (MS-1221) with Core 2 Duo T8100 and 4 GB RAM, with Vista Business x64 SP1. This notebook has ENE card reader, and with drivers version 3.00.04 (2007-03-01) I'm suffering BSOD randomly. With drivers uninstalled the system seems totally stable. Any news around this problem? -- Barb Bowman MS-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
The same problem here ! acer travelmate 6292, vista ultimate x64 sp1. Reinstalled, latest drivers, bios updated. still no luck. -- wh1t3w0lf |
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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
Solved with latest drivers version found on http://www.station-drivers.com/page/ene-tech.htm Extracted from the drivers changelog: ===== Release note ===== Version : 2.00.04 (SD), 2.00.03 (MS) Date : 2007-07-09 1. For Vista64 ,new DMA way to support when system memory upper 4G. -- morrallas |
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SD (Secure Digital) Causes Blue Screen in Vista x64
thanks for reporting back and sharing the good news and the link!
On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:12:20 -0500, morrallas wrote: Solved with latest drivers version found on http://www.station-drivers.com/page/ene-tech.htm Extracted from the drivers changelog: ===== Release note ===== Version : 2.00.04 (SD), 2.00.03 (MS) Date : 2007-07-09 1. For Vista64 ,new DMA way to support when system memory upper 4G. -- Barb Bowman MS-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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