Marco A. Calamari wrote at 2009-12-25 11:53 -0600:
> 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.

The only documented jumper for this SATA Seagate is the SATA-150 speed limit.

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