New customer, new to list. Very happy with the new case with the add-in card slot, the new net5501, and the web site.
Information offered here is in the hope it helps someone else. All units described are comBIOS ver 1.33 20070103 OS in all descriptions: FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE #8 I'm seeing similar problems of only being able to detect SanDisk media, which I've solved by switching to SanDisk media as suggested. The change seems to have happened between S/N 158352 2/20/2008 On which I based my production template as an initial purchase :-) and and S/N 161252 3/14/2008 S/N 161253 3/14/2008 But given inconsistencies I've seen just today between brands of CF media I have laying around (with very low milage) under an arguably non-sceintifc test I'm not sure I blame the Soekris hardware entirely, other than the change in behavior itself. Now maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'm confused how one brand of media can be detected as Pri Master (SanDisk) and the Fry's house brand (?) "A-Data" can be detected as Pri Slave and no changes to the BIOS have been made. It's as if there's a cable-select issue going on where you cannot know in advance where the disk will show up, except by brand. (A somewhat non-deterministic way of cable select I'd say.) It's also interesting to me that S/N 158352 will detect the "A-Data" disk as Pri Master Kotsgji xxm2.3.0 LBA Xlt 761-128-63 2097 Mbyte But only if Hitachi XXM 2.3.0 LBA 978-8-32 125 Mbyte (for instance) (detected as Pri Master on its own) is connected simutaneously to the on-board laptop IDE connector via an Addonics CF adapter card. On its own, the same disk in the on-board CF slot is detected as Pri Slv CF 2GB LBA Xlt 983-64-63 1982 Mbyte and is not detected at all on either system using the Addonics CF adapter on the laptop channel by itself. (I'm only using 1 CF disk in the on-board slot for production.) Hope this helps somebody. If you want more comparison, ask before Monday, all 3 of these plan to ship to customers then. :-) G. F. Boyd Atlanta, USA http://www.telecine.com _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
