The reason you only see 134 or 137 GB is because of the operating system. If the operating system cannot handle LBA (Large Block Addressing) you will only see 137GB partitions. Windows prior to Service Pack 1 had this issue.
Wayne Dixon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco A. Calamari Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 9:58 AM To: Owen Heisler; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Soekris] net5501 not detecting SATA HDs 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 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
