Greetings, I own many net4801's and net5501's and a developer on the AstLinux project.
I'm about to order a net6501 for testing, but have a Transcend mSATA SSD Disk geometry question... AstLinux is distributed as a FAT16 (128MB) partition as a .img.gz image which is normally dd'ed to a CF card or USB flash drive. Syslinux is used to boot the Linux image off the FAT16 partition, and later the user's configuration process formats the rest of the drive with an additional Linux ext2 partition(s). The .img.gz image is generated with a geometry of 64 heads, 63 sectors/track and seems to always work, whether a CF card or USB flash drive is the target. Usually fdisk reports the working /dev/hda or /dev/sda device as a geometry of 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, though not always, I have a SanDisk 1GB CF card which fdisk shows 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, but works perfectly. Question, will this same procedure (dd'ing an image) to a Transcend mSATA SSD work in the same way? >From the Transcend docs off the Soekris site: http://soekris.com/media/TS264GMSAX00_DatasheetV15.pdf it seems to imply the TS{2,4,8}GMSA500 series wants 16 Heads, and TS{16,32,64}GMSA300 want 15 Heads, both with 63 sectors/track. Are the controllers on these SSD's tolerant of a geometry of 64 heads, 63 sectors/track image? Thanks in advance... Lonnie _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
