2012/3/26 Neal Horman <[email protected]>: > Hi all, I need a little please. > > I have several 5501-70's that are a few years old. > > One in particular, unit A, seems to have problems using the CF slot when > compared to using the same CF in another 5501-70, unit B. > > I updated the bios from 1.33 to 1.33c in unit A, which seemed to improve the > bios boot behavior, thereby detecting the CF, when previously it would fail > with 1.33. >
I have a soekris 4801, and have seen weird behavior when swapping CFs. After a swap, hitting reset is insufficient - you have to power cycle the box. Of course, you should power off, then switch CFs, then power back up. HTH > There is a long (30 second) pause after memory post, to loading the kernel > from the CF. > > When the kernel loads and starts to do driver attach postings, the CF device > ata0 is missing, and a long (30 second) pause takes place while trying to > detect the device, which silently fails. > > I'm using FreeBSD 9.0 > > Q. Has anyone run into this, and solved it ? or is unit A just a paper > weight now ? > > TIA > Cheers > > -- > Neal Horman > Metroplex Control Systems > 12903 Delivery Drive > San Antonio, Tx 78247 > (210) 798-2934 - Direct number > (210) 495-5245 - Main Number - Ext 2934 > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
