I'm testing a 5501 with a Hitachi E7K100 IDE laptop drive, connected using the cable from a 4801 and temporary (cardboard) mounting hardware. I'm not using USB, CF, PCI or Mini-PCI cards.
I've installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE via TFTP and FTP using the excellent notes at http://www.ultradesic.com. I then csup'ed to RELENG_6.2 and successfully ran a 'make world' in approx 6 hours. All smooth and quiet. Only problem seen so far is that the net5501 cannot see the hard disk after a reboot. That is, you need to hit the reset switch or power- cycle the unit in order to be able to boot from the hard disk. Otherwise, the machine reboots but the BIOS does not see the hard disk. Is this a known issue? PSU is a 12 Volt 1.2 Amp unit from an old Ethernet switch. The boot-up messages and BIos SHOW parameters are as follows. (NB the line "Pri Mas HTE721010G9AT00 LBA Xlt 1024-255-63 97 Gbyte" does not appear after a reboot.) Thanks for any pointers! - Martin. POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy comBIOS ver. 1.31m 20070606 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering. net5501 0512 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz Pri Mas HTE721010G9AT00 LBA Xlt 1024-255-63 97 Gbyte Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 0:20:4 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0005000 00000000 15 0:20:5 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 4 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. comBIOS Monitor. Press ? for help. > show ConSpeed = 9600 ConLock = Enabled ConMute = Disabled BIOSentry = Enabled PCIROMS = Enabled PXEBoot = Enabled FLASH = Secondary BootDelay = 5 FastBoot = Disabled BootPartition = Disabled BootDrive = 80 FF FF FF ShowPCI = Enabled Reset = Hard _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
