I've experienced this a couple of times now. The first time was quite perplexing, and it was only on a lark that I tried a spare AC adapter that I had. I thought the whole unit had gone tango uniform. I don't have skills to disassemble the AC adapter and figure out where things have gone wrong inside.
The mode of failure is that the unit won't boot; it doesn't even get far enough in the boot process to start writing output to the serial port, so I get no indication whatsoever as to what's going on. The Power, Error, and Disk LED lights light up, with the disk LED blinking rapidly. There is a faint clicking sound from inside, almost as if the adapter isn't supplying enough juice for the disk to spin up (using a Hitachi 7200 RPM, 5V, 1.1A 100GB disk). I am using Soekris-supplied SMP Technology, Inc.-branded 12V, 1.5A AC adapters, FWIW. I'm asking about this now because I'm out of spare adapters, and I need to order more. I'm wondering if I have a bad batch or if there's something I have mis-spec'd when I built these out. Any thoughts appreciated, --John _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
