[Soekris] CF Master/Slave issue workaround on 4801

[Phil Karn]

Stuart Henderson wrote:

> They are all supposed to do cable select, but it's not always sampled at
> reset, just power-up. Read more about it is here:
> 
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical/6510>

Thanks, that explains it pretty clearly. Ugh.

> IME it hasn't been a problem with hard drives on standard PCs over the
> last few years. You've got to work with it when you use CompactFlash
> since there's no other way to indicate master/slave (e.g. in a CF-IDE
> converter, the jumper really means cableselect/secondary, regardless of
> what's actually printed on the pcb, so you have to use the appropriate
> connector if you want primary).
> 

So I guess buggy cards could still be used with some sort of adapter to
force the select pin to the desired state at reset. Ugh again.

Thanks.

phil