On Tue Nov 15 10:18 , Jay Em Cee sent: >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,
If you search the mailing list archives, you'll find you're not the first. I don't recall if I posted about it myself, but I've gone through two. The first time Soekris replaced it immediately, the second time I went with another source. -Jed _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
