At 12:38 PM 3/10/2008, Soren Kristensen wrote:
>The info missing here is: did the CF card work with an earlier
>comBIOS version ?
Hi,
Yes it did. Worked great.
Now some more details, that just make things more confusing.
Using the same flash which has this 60 second delay, I took it and
put it in another box that has the 1.33 BIOS. It boots up as
expected. However, some other problems... The first time it powered
up, it was stuck on the red error light. I had heard reports from
some of field techs that this has been happening as well on other
units so I am not sure if its related or how common. If I do a
quick power cycle on it, it will come up no problem. If I unplug it,
let it sit for 5min and power it up, same problem. But a quick
power cycle after the initial one and all is OK.
Now to the original issue.
I grabbed from inventory, another box that has the 1.33 BIOS.... No
problems. No boot delay problems. I grabbed another, and there is
the same delay. Looking at the 4 boards, they match in pairs. i.e.
2 which have similar chips, function the same way. The 2 boards with
the Geode chip 0721DQA work great! The 2 boards with the 0630DQA
show the 60second delay.
I will send you pics of both, unless you are looking for specific
info off the bottom of the board.
---Mike
>Yes: There was a few changes in the IDE code, to fix a div 0 bug
>caused by a mfg issues with soldered on flash on net4x26 series, and
>some of the timeouts was shortened. Those changes shouldn't cause
>any problems, but you never know.... If so, I need access to that
>specific CF module to investigate.
Its a Kingston branded unit. I can send it to you with an RMA unit I
have been meaning to send for a while now.
>No: Find another CF, preferable a Sandisk.
>
>
>Best Regards,
>
>
>Soren Kristensen
>
>CEO & Chief Engineer
>Soekris Engineering, Inc.
>
>
>>I just unpacked a new unit with this BIOS and found a different issue.
>>
>>POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy
>>comBIOS ver. 1.33 20070103 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.
>>net5501
>>0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz
>>Pri Sla CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte
>>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
>>0:14:0 12B9 1008 07000201 0101 0210 00 00 00 0000E501 00000000 10
>>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
>>0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15
>>0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15
>> 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
>>It just freezes here for 60 seconds before going on to boot. This
>>is after a power cycle, or resetting via the watchdog or just a
>>plain shutdown -r now. The same flash on another board boots as expected.
>>and then 60 seconds later (it seems to be exactly 60 seconds)
>>/boot.config: -hConsoles: serial port
>>BIOS drive C: is disk0
>>BIOS 639kB/261120kB available memory
>>FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
>>([EMAIL PROTECTED], Tue Jan 15 02:49:13 EST 2008)
>>Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
>>/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x29bc7c data=0x2def4+0x1c498
>>syms=[0x4+0x39d20+0x4+0x49bd4]
>>|
>>Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>>Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
>> The webpage says
>>"It is not recommended to "downgrade" a BIOS to an older version
>>than the one a board is supplied with."
>>Can someone from Soekris comment / help ? I am using FreeBSD 6.3
>>with images build via nanobsd.
>>What has changed in 1.33 ? There is no change log.
>> ---Mike
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