> Net6501 and case on my desk and looking at the > 2.5" drive mounting bracket and asking "why is that drive mounting > bracket needed at all?"
As we all probably know, case design is not a stronger part of Soekris team at all (constant overheating issues, HDD mounting over PCB, which adds another potential overheat risk, non-optimal ventilation holes placement etc). Same goes with very picky BIOS-es, at least with Geode based routers. Even old coreboot code can use serial port console long time since and offers various boot media choices without much trouble. Sorry to be heard so critical, but when nobody says nothing about weak things, then no one at Soekris cares. More than 5 years experience with various Geode based boards leaves something bad feeling with Soekris not so cheap boards (compared to other similar devices). By electronic design those are ok, but case design, end user manual (yes, i point again to net5501 nonexistent official documentation) and problematic BIOS issues leaves a room for improvement. =<Alvar>= _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
