[Soekris] Forcing CF master?

[Richard Gooch]

  Hi, all. I've just gotten a net4801 and my 2 GB "Elite Pro" CF card
is coming up as a slave device, even though I have set "FLASH=Primary"
in my BIOS. Looking through the archives, I see the following post:

On Thu Oct 12 02:26:02 UTC 2006, David Zelinsky writes:
> I tried both cards in both boxes.  The behavior is the same in the
> two boxes.  One of the cards (Card A) shows up as Primary Master
> (hda) with the BIOS setting FLASH=Primary, and as Primary Slave
> (hdb) with FLASH=Secondary.  But the other card (Card B) always
> shows up as Primary Slave (hdb), regardless of the FLASH setting.
> 
> For the record, Card A is EPMemory "X80" 2GB, which the BIOS
> identifies as simply "Flash Card".  Card B is an ATP AF2GCF 2GB, and
> the BIOS identifies it as "SAMSUNG CF/ATA".

This doesn't seem to have been resolved. The BIOS identifies my CF
card thus:
Pri Sla  SAMSUNG CF/ATA                  LBA Xlt 1016-64-63  2048 Mbyte

My board has comBIOS ver. 1.28. Is there any way to force my CF card
to be the primary device? I've even tried attaching a 2.5" HDD which
was set to "slave" and it doesn't help. I really want my CF card to be
my primary IDE device, but I don't want to have to speculatively buy a
new CF card.

				Regards,

					Richard....