[Soekris] Issues with detecting disk and booting on 5501

[Rémi Laurent]

* Dánial Olsen - 02-07-2008 à 13h04:

> >>> On 26-06-2008 at 11:03, Soren Kristensen <soren at soekris.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> I'm having difficulties with net5501-70 using SATA disks. The big
> >> problem is that the 5501 doesn't detect the SATA disk on every boot
> -
> >> which is totally unacceptable. In fact I need to plug/unplug the
> >> power 4-5 times before the comBIOS detects the disk.
> > 
> > Some boards form the latest batch have that problem with the SATA 
> > interface, I'm working on it and expect to know what's happening, and
> 
> > hopefully have a solution, in a few days.
> > 
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> It's been a few days and I've got 5 units that I need to deploy.
> Are you any closer to a solution and what do you expect that to be?
> BIOS upgrade or board replacements?

I don't known if this is an acceptable fix, but I had the same problem
with a bunch of 5501 flashed with BIOS version 1.33b, downgrading to
version 1.33 seems to have solved the problem.

-- 
Rémi Laurent

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