Tamas, I've used the Transcend cards, but on most of the Soekris net5501 systems, the cards show up most of the time as Secondary Master. That doesn't bother me as the boot system I'm using doesn't care where the drive is, but I could see how grub could be confused (especially if it changes at some point in the future and behaves as Primary Master).
For all new systems I've gone to the SanDisk. They have done the most work in the CF arena with several other companies licensing technology from SanDisk. See if you can find a similar document on SanDisk's website. I sure couldn't when I looked a few months back. It would be more reassuring if there was such a document. Darrick Tamas Vincze wrote: > Hi, > > I purchased a 2GB Transcend CF card (TS2GCF266) for use with net5501 > and copied one of the EMBCop images to it. > comBIOS 1.33 hasn't recognized the card, but after flashing it to > 1.33c the card showed up. However GRUB won't auto-boot: it always > goes to the grub> prompt, although grub.conf has the "default 0" > line at the top. Probably it's caused by a disk reading error, > because if type: > > grub> root (hd0,0) > > it says: > > Error 25: Disk read error > > What's interesting is that it always fails if I try it many times > within about a minute, and then it always works. If I just wait > for a minute after getting the initial grub> prompt and then enter > the "root" command it would also work. > It looks like something isn't settled properly and some kind of a > timeout needs to happen before GRUB's stage 2 can access the CF. > After that EMBCop boots up and works properly. > > I tried to set BootDelay to 60 seconds in comBIOS but it won't wait > for more than 16 seconds. This is bad because the box won't boot up > after a power failure, it would always need manual attention. > > I suspect the recommendation would be to buy a SanDisk card. ;) > > So here's the main question: I know the Transcend card I have ($18) > has built-in hardware ECC and wear-leveling. Is there a SanDisk card > known to work that also has these features, or at least ECC? > Their web site doesn't say anything about it and I'd like to make > sure that corrupt data won't be returned by the CF card unnoticed. > > I've read that someone had success by using a CF-to-IDE adapter. > Those look all-passive boards, it's hard to believe that they could > fix the CF problem by simple wiring. Isn't the same wiring used > on the net5501 board to connect the CF socket to the IDE bus? > > For Soren: > Here's a 79-page datasheet from Transcend about their 266X CF cards. > Perhaps it has a piece of information needed to address the problem > in comBIOS or in the net5501 hardware: > http://www.transcendusa.com/support/dlcenter/datasheet/TSXGCF266.pdf > > Best, > Tamas > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
