[Soekris] Cold boot failures on Net5501?

[K K]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Wim Vandeputte wrote:
> I would blame it on the 1.33b soekris BIOS, not OpenBSD, due to the initial
> timeout I see when detecting the Pri Mas

Soekris explains (in the URL posted previously) why they blame it on
the flash card manufacturers.

I've been testing with a Sandisk card this afternoon, haven't had the
problem occur in several (4+) power cycles.

This "SanDisk Extreme III model SDCFX3-002G-A21" card comes up as:
Pri Mas  SanDisk SDCFX3-2048             LBA Xlt 992-64-63  2001 Mbyte

OpenBSD shows the following:
$ dmesg |egrep "^(wd0|pciide)"
pciide0 at pci0 dev 20 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA,
channel 0 wired
to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFX3-2048>
wd0: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 1953MB, 4001760 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
$ exit

Interesting that this card shows up as "4-sector PIO" while my
Kingston and A-Data cards were all "1-sector".

Kevin