Hi I was given a couple of the above boxes, the 8G HDD's are noisy yet run pfSense fine. The rest of the boxes are quiet with largish CPU heatsinks instead of typically noisy CPU fans.
I was hoping they would become nice quiet boxes running pfSense on IDE / CF drives. I connected up some IDE CF adapters expecting these to simply run, and find they boot straight into a read error. I tried pfSense 1.01 and 1.20.2. FreeNAS also has the same read error shown. They have the latest Dell A13 BIOS and both behave the same, two quite different CF / IDE adapters also give same result. The Linux DD-WRT boots fine using CF / IDE. Googling did not find me anything of any help on this. Anyone know anything about this, I suppose this is a BIOS incompatibility with FreeBSD and they are not going to work as I had hoped? Kind regards David Hingston
