Re: [Soekris] Recent power up and sata problems....

2008-10-10 Thread René Luckow
Yup, at the EU shop as well :) On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Davy MELINA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Available for Soekris Europe Shop too ? Le 10 oct. 08 à 01:28, Soren Kristensen a écrit : Hi Everybody, To set is straight: The net5501 power up issue have been fully identified and

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Davy MELINA
Arnt: Just for my information, do you know how many write (maybe read too) operations support a standard CF ? Le 10 oct. 08 à 13:01, Arnt Gulbrandsen a écrit : Stuart Henderson writes: On 2008-10-10, Davy MELINA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or use

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Richard Gooch
Bill Maas writes: It depends on the application you have in mind. For a router, the CF is perfect, for a DB backend server it most likely isn't. Maintaining a swap partition is also not a viable option with a CF card. This isn't actually true. Even the older CF cards have good enough wear

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Stuart Henderson writes: On 2008-10-10, Davy MELINA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or use TMPFS for your /var. CF already does wear-levelling in the card's controller. And longevity is *far* better than many people seem to assume. People aren't really

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Oleg, On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 10:10 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote: Bill Maas wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:15 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote: Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would like to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the board can

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Richard, I was talking about write speeds, not about CF card lifespan. And yes, of course it also depends on what people are going to push into the DB. I wouldn't set up a CVS server on a CF card myself, just because in general those cards are still quite slow, the affordable ones at least.

[Soekris] Locking down a Soekris

2008-10-10 Thread Sargun Dhillon
I have a Net5501, and I'm looking at locking it down (as it'll be leaving my hands). I basically need to prevent anyone from messing with ComBIOS and/or manipulating the HDD. On other platforms I've seen a variety of choices: -hard drive blessing -BIOS passwords -Encrypted bootloader -Signed

[Soekris] Booting to PXELinux With CF Card Present

2008-10-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a new net5501 and I want to install Debian Linux on it (BIOS is 1.33). I have a hard drive on it and I've setup a PXE boot server to start the Linux install. As I understand it, I can't boot off a hard drive and have to set up /boot in the CF card. I've also found comments about a bug

Re: [Soekris] Booting to PXELinux With CF Card Present

2008-10-10 Thread K K
Which specific version of comBIOS 1.33x do you have on your 5501? On 10/10/08, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Is there a way to boot off the hard drive consistently, without dealing with the bug I've read about? (Then I wouldn't need the CF.) Yes, you can set the boot order in the

[Soekris] 5501 available in the US?

2008-10-10 Thread C. Bensend
Hey folks, I've heard mention on the list that a new batch of 5501s has hit the shops. Are any available in the US? The US online shop shows them all out of stock still, but the Europe shop shows them available. I'd really like to get a 5501-70 with case on order, but I'm not sure if