>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> So are you saying that I can get "Secondary" CF card and all Richard> three entities will work together like a charm? No. You seem to have missed the point that there is no SATA controller on the net5501. SATA functionality is provided by a Marvell bridge chip that allows a serial ATA drive to be connected to the parallel ATA bus. The Geode CS5536 companion chip used in the net5501 provides *one* ATA channel (primary) with *two* ports (master and slave). There's no secondary channel. And consequently you can only drive two devices simultaneously. The three headers on the motherboard (laptop ATA, CF and SATA) are there to give systems integrators a choice... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
