Martin K. Petersen wrote: >>>>>> "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...
It will be really nice with the manual is actually available. All of this would be documented and properly answered. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
