Hi Steve,

Yes, it does work after power-cycling the unit. I believe the
same functionality is achieved as using the CF-to-IDE adapter,
but without the adapter.

Tamas


Steve Clark wrote:
> Tamas Vincze wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have Transcend 266x CF card that didn't work with the net5501
>> as I e-mailed the list about a month ago.
>>
>> I purchased a CF-to-IDE adapter and with that the same CF card worked!
>> Here came the idea: the adapter had a Master/Slave jumper, why not
>> hack one onto the net5501? I tried it and it worked!
>>
>> I cut the -CSEL wire on the back of the CF slot making the card
>> work as Slave regardless of the "flash" setting in comBIOS (v1.33c).
>> The CF card is detected by comBIOS, Grub boots and Linux sees it as hdb.
>> I tried grounding -CSEL to make it Master but it didn't work.
>>
>> Here are the details and a pic:
>> http://www.vincze.org/hw/soekris/
>>
>> Tamas
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> Does this also work from a cold power on?

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