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      jouko
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      Hi Guys, after some time tackling with this problems I think found the root cause and solution. (at least in my case)

      Problem seems to appear when CF disk is formatted in windows operating system, to fix this you can use diskpart util.

      To do that start "Command prompt" as "Administrator" and do following. Note in my case CF card was disk 3.

      WARNING MAKE SURE YOU SELECT RIGHT DISK AS EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE WIPED OFF..

      Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
      Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

      C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

      Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
      Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
      On computer: PC

      DISKPART> list disk

      Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
       –------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
       Disk 0    Online          119 GB      0 B
       Disk 1    Online          931 GB      0 B        *
       Disk 2    Online          931 GB      0 B
       Disk 3    Online         3815 MB      0 B

      DISKPART> select disk 3

      Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

      DISKPART> clean

      DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

      DISKPART>

      and now you should be able to write to the CF card

      c:\write>physdiskwrite -u pfSense-2.0.2-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz

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

      Information for \.\PhysicalDrive0:
        Windows:      cyl: 58756
                        tpc: 224
                        spt: 19
        C/H/S:        16383/16/63
        Model:        SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series
        Serial number: S0Z3NEAC845095
        Firmware rev.: CXM03B1Q

      Information for \.\PhysicalDrive1:
        Windows:      cyl: 121601
                        tpc: 255
                        spt: 63
        C/H/S:        16383/16/63
        Model:        ST31000528AS
        Serial number:            9VP55BRK
        Firmware rev.: CC38

      Information for \.\PhysicalDrive2:
        Windows:      cyl: 121601
                        tpc: 255
                        spt: 63
        C/H/S:        16383/16/63
        Model:        WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1
        Serial number:      WD-WCAV5H808061
        Firmware rev.: 80.00A80

      Information for \.\PhysicalDrive3:
        Windows:      cyl: 486
                        tpc: 255
                        spt: 63

      Which disk do you want to write? (0..3) 3
      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 3 with new data. Proceed? (y/n) y
      Found compressed image file
      1989969408/1989969408 bytes written in total

      c:\write>

      Cheers
      Jouko/mk@neon1.net

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