Chris Babcock wrote: > Wim Vandeputte - Mailinglists only wrote: >> hey Chris, >> >> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 02:00:35PM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote: >>> Does anybody here know if the Transcend industrial CF cards work >>> properly in a 5501? Also, are they stuck as master or slave, or do they >>> properly honor the CS function on the Soekris boxes? >> by the way, have a look at the specs of the card, the Transcend industrial >> CF cards are optimised for temperature and vibration, not writes. There is >> not much benefit in getting them >> > Hmmm... > > The card I was considering using was a Transcend TS1GCF100I. The specs > for this CF card list it as being rated for "2,000,000 Program/Erase > cycles". Is that only marginally better than typical? > > I have had several very frustrating discussions with CF vendors, and > most of them won't admit how many writes their cards are rated for. The > industrial manufactures often do, but obtaining industrial CF can be a > nuisance.
I have several of the TS2GCF100I's in use. As I recall they all consistently boot (so far) as Primary Slave. I have another Transcend card that is a different model which is identified as Primary Master. Note that the two machines that identify the cards are Primary Slave were on net5501's that are only about 2 months old while the one that identifies the card as Primary Master is one of the boards from the second batch of net5501's produced. (so the bios is different and may have different CS settings). I do have a spare net5501 here and a few of the Transcend cards. If I get a chance, I can see if they follow the correct behavior. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com http://www.djhsolutions.com/wiki _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
