On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 16:20 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > 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.
Er .... you're right and I beg the list pardon. In fact I've 2 equal 5501, one with 160Gb SATA and one with 160 Gb PATA; I made confusion. The trick of "cable select" obviously apply to PATA; I never saw it on docs or here, so I want to share it. 5501 SATA setting works flawlessy with CF as primary except that the HD capacity as seen by bios is lower. Ciao. Marco -- Marco A. Calamari <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
