On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 20:09 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > Martin Johnson wrote at 2009-12-24 19:09 -0600: > > 1. Can you use both CF + HDD, if you set FLASH = Secondary in the ComBIOS? > > Yes, that seems to work. > > > 2. I suspect 134 GByte is not a real capacity limit, just a limitation of > > the > > initial power-on scan. One of my 5501's uses a 1TB WD 3.5" disk: this is > > shown at power-on as 134 GB, but FreeBSD can use the whole 1 TB with no > > problem. This is with ComBIOS 1.33 (20070103). BTW, I didn't have to > > jumper > > the drive down to SATA-150, but perhaps different drives have different > > timing characteristics. > > With this Seagate, the jumper still seems to be required to keep the BIOS > from > hanging for a while on boot.
My 5501 setting works flawlessy with CF as hda (boot) and a SATA Seagate 160 as hdb. The only trick in to jumper "cable select" the HDU. HTH Marco -- Marco A. Calamari <[email protected]>
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