[Soekris] net5501 and CF + ATA + SATA

[Richard Storm]

On 11/4/07, Bill Maas <bill at stsx.org> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: are you just testing your Soekris box to it's
> limits, or do you really want to use it this way? Or, hope you don't
> mind a bit of friendly sarcasm: do you own a car and does it run on
> diesel, petrol, LPG, solar power _and_ fuel cells? Simultaneously?

Well, there is nothing mentioned about "one at a time" in net5501 feature
list.

> Come on, give your Soekris box a break! And CF card master/slave
> problems have been reported over and over again on this list, better
> consult the card manufacturers. A list of troublesome cards would
> probably be a nice addition to the Wiki, but solutions for this issue so
> far seem beyond the soekris-tech range.

So are you saying that I can get "Secondary" CF card and all three
entities will work together like a charm?



> Bill
>
> > SATA and ATA comes up fine:
> > comBIOS ver. 1.32i 20071005  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.
> > net5501 0512 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz
> > Pri Mas  WDC WD800JD-75JNA0              LBA Xlt 1024-255-63  78 Gbyte
> > Pri Sla  IBM-DBCA-206480                 LBA Xlt 789-255-63  6342 Mbyte
> >
> > But when I insert CF card - ATA gets lost:
> > Pri Mas  WDC WD800JD-75JNA0              LBA Xlt 1024-255-63  78 Gbyte
> > Pri Sla  ULTIMATE CF CARD 2GB            LBA Xlt 1007-64-63  2005 Mbyte
> >
> > However I have set FLASH=Secondary:
> > > show
> > ConSpeed = 19200
> > ConLock = Enabled
> > ConMute = Disabled
> > BIOSentry = Enabled
> > PCIROMS = Enabled
> > PXEBoot = Enabled
> > FLASH = Secondary
> > BootDelay = 5
> > FastBoot = Disabled
> > BootPartition = Disabled
> > BootDrive = 81 80 F0 FF
> > ShowPCI = Enabled
> > Reset = Hard
> >
> > Any suggestions how to get them all together?
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