Dear list, Today, UPS delivered a new net5501 board for use in a console server. Installation worked fine, but upon subsequent reboots and cold starts, the CF card did not get detected reliably. The card in question is a Silicon Systems Inc. one, sized at 1 GByte. On ComBIOS v1.33, the setting FLASH=Secondary did not solve the issue. An earlier card of this type worked flawlessly for me. Probably, that net5501 was using ComBIOS 1.32i (unsure, it's at a customer now, happily doing its work).
What did solve my detection problem was the following: + Update the ComBIOS to v1.33b [1] + Set FLASH=Primary (setting it to secondary did *not* work) Thanks to Wim Vandeputte who suggested the above. For updating the ComBIOS, I used lrzsz [2]. Please note that this ComBIOS revision is not yet linked from the Soekris download page, so this comes with a WfM condition (i.e. if you use it, you so entirely at your own peril). Cheers, Rogier References: 1. Soekris Engineering - ComBIOS v1.33b download (not officially linked, use at your own risk) http://soekris.com/software/b5501_133b.bin 2. OpenBSD packages for 4.3 - lrzsz http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/i386/lrzsz-0.12.20p0.tgz-long.html -- If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
