Hi Soren, 

Thanks for your answer.  I will try this modification this week end.

Charles

Le 2011-10-10 à 18:04, Soren Kristensen a écrit :

> Hi Charles & List,
> 
> Charles Bergeron wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I try to boot a net6501 board with a msata ssd, but the biso did not detect 
>> it.
>> I use a transcend msata slc, 8g (TS8GMSA500)
> 
> I have looked into it, the Transcend mSATA SSD boards we just received and 
> have started to ship have the same problem, and I would think that your 
> Transcend mSATA SSD is the same....
> 
> I turned out that the Transcend mSATA SSD don't follow the mSATA specs, 
> according to the spec there need to be a 0 to 200 ohms pulldown on pin 51, 
> which is used for presence detection, t.ex. on the net6501. The Transcend 
> mSATA SSD I have have a 2 Kohm resistor, and that's too high for the net6501 
> to detect it.
> 
> The good thing is that it's easy to fix, if you can do a little soldering.... 
> You just remove the resistor and do a solder bridge short instead, see 
> picture located at:
> 
> http://soekris.com/media/Transcend_mSATA_mod.jpg
> 
> Anybody out there who purchased a Transcend mSATA SSD from Soekris are 
> welcome to do the modification themselve, or return the mSATA board to 
> Soekris for modification or replacement.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> Soren Kristensen
> 
> CEO & Chief Engineer
> Soekris Engineering, Inc.

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