At 04:05 PM 10/5/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Tancsa writes:
> >At 03:41 PM 10/5/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike
> Tancsa writes:
> >>
> >> >The only mystery remaining is that FreeBSD 6.x sees this flash as
> >> >ad1, but FreeBSD current sees it as ad0.
> >>
> >>Have you by any chance lost the ATA_STATIC_ID option in your -current
> >>kernel ?
> >
> >Yikes, thats it! That makes sense why the difference between stable
> >and current. But why does the soekris see a flash sometimes as a
> >slave and sometimes as primary ?
>
>Ideally it would be controlled by the bios-settings, but some CF cards
>will only sample the master/slave pin on power-on and not on resets,
>and they tend to be either always master or slave, depending on the
>state of that pin at power-on.
Thanks for explanation! I had completely forgotten about the
ATA_STATIC_ID option in the kernel. Getting rid of it for sites
where I just have the flash will make configuration easier as I dont
have to worry now about the ad0/ad1 issue.
---Mike
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