[Soekris] net5501 and CF + ATA + SATA

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Storm <storm.richard at gmail.com> writes:

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

No.

You seem to have missed the point that there is no SATA controller on
the net5501.  SATA functionality is provided by a Marvell bridge chip
that allows a serial ATA drive to be connected to the parallel ATA
bus.

The Geode CS5536 companion chip used in the net5501 provides *one* ATA
channel (primary) with *two* ports (master and slave).  There's no
secondary channel.  And consequently you can only drive two devices
simultaneously.

The three headers on the motherboard (laptop ATA, CF and SATA) are
there to give systems integrators a choice...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering