Re: [Soekris] net6501 can't boot with large disk attached

[Denis Fortin]

On 2013-05-03 12:00, soekris-tech-requ...@lists.soekris.com wrote:

I recently hooked up a large external USB disk to a net6501 and made a
most unpleasant discovery.  The machine hangs when booting.  Note that
I'm*not*  trying to boot from the drive.  Just having it hooked up
prevents the net6501 from booting.


I've complained about this a long time ago.

I have a net6501 with 2 USB drives: one, an internal USB device (short 
USB key in the internal USB connector) that contains the O/S, and the 
other a 1TB external USB drive that I use to store data.


As soon as I connect more than 1 USB disk at boot time, the net6501 
freezes during the USB disk detection during the boot sequence.


So, everytime I need to reboot, I just disconnect the external USB disk, 
reboot the net6501 and reconnect the disk as soon as it's past the USB 
drive detection code in the BIOS boot sequence.  From that point on, it 
works fine.


If the machine goes down unexpectedly (power failure or something), it 
stays frozen until I can get to it and reboot with the extra USB drive 
disconnected.


Quite annoying, really.

> Is there a new comBIOS in the works that will fix this within a
> reasonable time frame?

We're still hoping for a 1.42.

Regards,

Denis F.
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[Soekris] Rubber feet dimensions?

[Christian Weisgerber]

Strange question time:  What are the nominal dimensions of the
little rubber feet attached to the bottom of the Soekris cases?
They tend to fall off.  I got a bunch of 12 x 3 mm ones as replacements,
but they aren't quite tall enough, at least on the net6501.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber  na...@mips.inka.de
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