[Soekris] net5501 BIOS Update

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200710051954.l95JsNuB023893 at lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:
>At 03:41 PM 10/5/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>In message <200710051935.l95JZ66a023819 at lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:
>>
>> >The only mystery remaining is that FreeBSD 6.x sees this flash as
>> >ad1, but FreeBSD current sees it as ad0.
>>
>>Have you by any chance lost the ATA_STATIC_ID option in your -current
>>kernel ?
>
>Yikes, thats it!  That makes sense why the difference between stable 
>and current.  But why does the soekris see a flash sometimes as a 
>slave and sometimes as primary ?

Ideally it would be controlled by the bios-settings, but some CF cards
will only sample the master/slave pin on power-on and not on resets,
and they tend to be either always master or slave, depending on the
state of that pin at power-on.

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