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    Questions about writing to CF

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    • N Offline
      Noe
      last edited by

      Got this error message: 3816529920 bytes writtenWrite error after 3816529920 bytes (8192).

      Is this going to cause issue?
      Why am I getting this issue, is it related to Windows or my CF card?
      Should I be OK just using a 2GB image instead?

      Trying to write the 4GB image to a 4GB Kingston CF Elite Pro.

      c:\Pfsense>physdiskwrite -u pfSense-2.0-RC3-4g-i386-20110621-1821-nanobsd.img.gz

      physdiskwrite v0.5.2 by Manuel Kasper mk@neon1.netSearching for physical drives…

      Information for \.\PhysicalDrive0:
        Windows:      cyl: 77823
                        tpc: 255
                        spt: 63
      Information for \.\PhysicalDrive1:
        Windows:      cyl: 464
                        tpc: 255
                        spt: 63

      Which disk do you want to write? (0..1) 1
      WARNING: that disk is larger than 2 GB! Make sure you're not accidentally
      overwriting your primary hard disk! Proceeding on your own risk...
      About to overwrite the contents of disk 1 with new data. Proceed? (y/n) y
      Found compressed image file
      3816529920 bytes writtenWrite error after 3816529920 bytes (8192)./mk@neon1.net

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        Metu69salemi
        last edited by

        try smaller image

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        • N Offline
          Noe
          last edited by

          Thank you for the reply, I used the 2GB image and it seems to be good.

          c:\Pfsense>physdiskwrite -u pfSense-2.0-RC3-2g-i386-20110621-1821-nanobsd.img.gz

          physdiskwrite v0.5.2 by Manuel Kasper mk@neon1.netSearching for physical drives…

          Information for \.\PhysicalDrive0:
            Windows:      cyl: 77823
                            tpc: 255
                            spt: 63
          Information for \.\PhysicalDrive1:
            Windows:      cyl: 464
                            tpc: 255
                            spt: 63

          Which disk do you want to write? (0..1) 1
          WARNING: that disk is larger than 2 GB! Make sure you're not accidentally
          overwriting your primary hard disk! Proceeding on your own risk...
          About to overwrite the contents of disk 1 with new data. Proceed? (y/n) y
          Found compressed image file
          2001194496/2001194496 bytes written in total/mk@neon1.net

          Not sure why it gives that error on 4GB image, but should be good to go I guess.

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            Metu69salemi
            last edited by

            Your CF manufacturer actually made a bit smaller card than 4GB or one reason is that manufacturers define 4GB differently. In this forum we're already discussed this same thing over and over again.

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