[Soekris] SATA failures on 2 x net5501-70 units

[Martin Johnson]

On 22 Jun 2008, at 16:55, Patrick Lamaizière wrote:

> Le Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:38:10 +0100,
> Martin Johnson <martin.johnson.uk.lists at googlemail.com> a écrit :
>
>> - When the SATA drives are detected by combios, why doesn't the
>> FreeBSD 7.0p2 installer see them?  Do I need to add something to the
>> GENERIC kernel?
>
> No, it should work out of the box. I've installed a 7.0 release and  
> now
> i run 7-STABLE.
>
> Well, I don't have any problem on my net5501 with a WDC WD2500BEVS  
> disk.
> ComBios 1.33

That's useful.  I just found a WDC2500BEVS on the shelf.  Tried it  
with net5501 S/N 57N00725 with these results in combios 1.33:

	10 warm boot cycles:  pass: 3,   fail (drive not detected): 7

	10 cold boot cycles:
		fail (4 LED silent hang) : 2
		fail (drive not detected): 5
  		pass: 3

	When drive is detected, using "boot f0" for the FreeBSD 7.0 installer  
is not successful: the FreeBSD kernel can't see the drive.

So, I guess I need to repeat this test on my other recent net5501, and  
then again on my two older net5501's (which are running ATA drives) to  
try to confirm that it is a manufacturing fault with the last batch of  
net5501's.

Do you know what firmware revision your WDC2500BEVS has?  When my  
drive is detected, the combios reports 'WDC WDC2500BEVS-00UST0'.  It  
would be interesting to see if we have the same drive firmware.

I also have a 2500BEVE drive that I could try, similar but slightly  
newer.

Thanks!

- Martin