I am experiencing problems with intermittent detection of my CF card on a new 5501-70 with the latest version of the ComBIOS. The card is a new "Silicon Systems SiliconDrive Compact Flash card 2 GB Industrial Grade" card, so it's not an old or a junky card. What I see on boot is
POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy comBIOS ver. 1.33 20070103 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering. net5501 0512 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz There is then a brief delay and then, seemingly at random, one of Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 2GB LBA Xlt 1016-64-63 2049 Mbyte or Pri Sla CHS -- Mbyte or nothing. Then I get 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 0:17:0 168C 0013 02000001 0116 0290 08 40 00 A0010000 00000000 15 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 A0020000 00000000 07 0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0021000 00000000 07 and the thing starts to boot, either from the card if it was detected or PXE if the card was not detected. The BIOS parameters are ConSpeed = 19200 ConLock = Enabled ConMute = Disabled BIOSentry = Enabled PCIROMS = Enabled PXEBoot = Enabled FLASH = Primary BootDelay = 5 FastBoot = Disabled BootPartition = Disabled BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF ShowPCI = Enabled Reset = Hard CpuSpeed = Default I haven't managed to detect much pattern to the behaviour, e.g. cold boot vs warm boot. On those rare occasions when the disk is found and FreeBSD gets a chance to boot the disk is detected as ad0: 2001MB <SILICONSYSTEMS INC 2GB 241 0230> at ata0-master WDMA2 In its final location this box will be 1500km away from me most of the time, so obviously it has to reboot reliably without any intervention. Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
