On 05/03/2013 07:35 AM, Lon Willett wrote: > I recently hooked up a large external USB disk to a net6501 and made a > most unpleasant discovery. The machine hangs when booting. Note that > I'm *not* trying to boot from the drive. Just having it hooked up > prevents the net6501 from booting. > > More specifically, I get: > > --- > comBIOS ver. 1.41c 20121115 Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Soekris Engineering. > > net6501 > > 2048 Mbyte Memory CPU Atom E6xx 1600 Mhz > > > SATA AHCI BIOS ver. 0.61 20121115 Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Intel > Corporation > > Controller Bus#02, Device#06, Function#00: 02 Ports, 01 Devices > Port-00: Hard Disk, INTEL SSDMAEXC020G3 > Port-01: No device detected > > Soekris USB Expansion ROM ver. 1.01 20111203 > > 81: USB > --- > > and then the machine hangs. I tried with a couple of different > adapters, so I don't think it likely that that is the problem.
This isn't a power supply issue is it? That is: the disk is being powered by its own power supply? Otherwise, if a common power supply is used the current surge when the disk spins up might cause the Soekris to crash. Long shot but I thought I'd ask. HTH, Jan _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
