Hi Denis, Denis Fortin wrote: > Greetings, > > The net6501 works well, booting from an internal USB key under FreeBSD > without problem. > > If I then connect 2 external USB drives onto the USB ports while FreeBSD > is up, it detects the drives correctly and I can use them as expected. > However, if I reset the net6501, it freezes during boot up thusly:
Hmm, two external USB disk, meaning also a USB HUB, right ? Or are you still using that extra internal PCIe USB controller ? That might be stretching the USB boot code abilities a little too far, it's still pretty new. I will work to resolve it, just got my USB analyzer to help, but need to know the exact hub and disk types so I can try to reproduce it here. > > comBIOS ver. 1.41a 20111203 Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Soekris > Engineering. > > net6501 > > 2048 Mbyte Memory CPU Atom E6xx 1600 Mhz > > SATA AHCI BIOS ver. 0.6 20110902 Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Intel > Corporation > > Controller Bus#02, Device#06, Function#00: 02 Ports > > No device found > > Soekris USB Expansion ROM ver. 1.01 20111203 > > 80: USB 01 Xlt -2-32 Mbyte > > 81: USB > > I notice that disk #80 has no number of cylinders (-2-32 Mbyte), and > the net6501 freezes probing disk #81 (red Error light stays on). > > Both disks are external 2GB 3.5" drives with their own power supply. > > Could it be a question of timing? Or perhaps a need to retry upon > getting an error? I suppose that the issue is not a question of power, > as the 2 disks are externally powered. Maybe more like waiting for a time out, how long did you wait ? What happens if you do a "reboot" after it time outs (if it do) ? If you're still using the extra controller then a short term fix will be for me to update the USB boot code to only support the net6501's own USB controllers, which I've been thinking about doing anyway.... Best Regards, Soren Kristensen CEO & Chief Engineer Soekris Engineering, Inc. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
