[Soekris] net5501-70: 2 of 4 devices are broken

[Frédéric VANNIÈRE]

Hello,


Marie Koreen a écrit :
> What do the cards ID themselves as when you boot these boxes?  I only 
> ask because depending on where you got the "sandisk" CF cards, they 
> might be fake.  China is trying to pass off a lot of fakes as extreme 
> III and extreme IV cards.  I got a fake myself, but you can tell because 
> the card will ID itself as a Sandisk card in the bios detection.  The 
> fake I had ID'd itself as "SMI MODEL" instead of "Sandisk ####" 
> whatever.  And it would have all kinds of booting issues.  I went to a 
> store and bought a real one and have had absolutely no problems since.
>   

The CF are real SanDisk, when the boot fails the only thing I see
on the console is a sort of 'À' and nothing else.

I've first tried Kingston CF but they didn't work well.

Frédéric

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