SD/CF card reader

[Rob Farmer]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 16:26, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:35:20 -0600, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > GEOM: da1: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary.
>> > GEOM: da1: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary.
>> > GEOM: da1: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary.
>> > GEOM: da1: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary.
>>
>>
>> Yeah I don't know about that.  I think it's just a warning but maybe trying
>> using FreeBSD zero out device, partition(slice) and newfs_msdos it.
>
> Those messages seem to be uncritical as I've tried to access
> various media - without any problems. Those cards work well
> on my v7 system (where those messages aren't shown). I just
> continue as if those messages haven't been issued.
>

They are useless and have been removed from current recently (large
discussion of the details):
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-December/023131.html

Even Windows doesn't bother with the alignment in recent versions.

-- 
Rob Farmer