[Soekris] hda or hdb problem

Stuart Henderson stu at spacehopper.org
Thu Aug 24 15:30:32 UTC 2006


On 2006/08/24 12:49, Matteo Piazza wrote:
> I not understand why with some CF card the soekris box at the boot time 
> see the CF card on the hdb device and with another CF card the box see 
> the card on the hda device.

CF cards choose master/slave based on the CSEL line; some cards
do this differently to others. There's a comBIOS setting (flash=
primary/secondary), if this is no help then your cards don't
read the CSEL line at the time the Soekris sets it.

> This is for me is a problem because when I create the cf image I wont 
> have a standard fstab file.

Buy a bunch of cards all the same?



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