Dear all, I have a net5501, which seems to work with a Kingston 64GB SSDnowV+ (SATA) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (3.5" 160GB) SATA. However, I can not get it to work with my Seagate Barracuda ES SATA 3.0Gb/s 750-GB Hard Drive (ST3750640NS).
The 750G Barracuda has worked fine for a year in my Dell PowerEdge T105, and I put FreeBSD 8.0 on it using my Dell OptiPlex 8400, where it also works fine. However, when I put the 750G Barracuda in the net5501, it does not get past POST. Most of the time I get to POST 0123456789bcefgh sometimes to POST 0123456789bcefghip and sometimes it even starts to check memory, but does not get past the 0000 Mbyte Once it acutally got past POST and into the ComBIOS, but the drive still not visible. I have tried to jumper the 750G Barracuda to 1.5G/s, but the result is the same. The net5501 was delivered with ComBIOS ver 1.33 20070103 Does anyone have a suggestion on what to try next? I am aware of http://www.soekris.com/Issue0007-8.htm and wonder if this could be the reason, so I have to ship the net5501 back. Unfortunately the Issue page is not dated, so I have no idea if it is still current. I am also aware of the "net5501 not detecting SATA HDs" thread on this mailinglist, but apart from the 1.5G/s jumpering, it does not seem to have any useful info for the POST stage where I am stuck (whereas I might have to come back later to figure out the geom problems once the drive is detected). I could also flash the 1.33c bios to the net5501, but I do not want to try that unless I really have to, and I can find no release-notes, change-log, or the like stating what might be the differences between my 1.33 and the 1.33c. And I guess trying to flash may void my warranty, so I cannot send the net5501 back for replacement... Any suggestions, hints, etc. would be most appreciated. /Henrik _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
