Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-27 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:07 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone know what gbe chip they're using in the '62? > i couldn't find any documentation on their website. > I will try to check tonight or tomorrow. I have one at home all cracked open. ron

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Feb 26 14:25:49 EST 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Somebody asked why I don't use these boards. The main reason was that, > whlie they are really great systems, they were not quite hackable > enough for BIOS work. Plus, the VGA->serial hardware is not something > I need or want, since I ru

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-26 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Feb 26 17:30:47 EST 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm > > Have you got a plan9 compatible SATA card to > work inb the pci slot? > > This could replace my noisy and power > hungry home server. this card is pci-x, but does work in pci slots: http://www.ne

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Simon
> http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm Have you got a plan9 compatible SATA card to work inb the pci slot? This could replace my noisy and power hungry home server. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-26 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi erik and ron, thanks for the response. regards dharani

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-26 Thread ron minnich
Somebody asked why I don't use these boards. The main reason was that, whlie they are really great systems, they were not quite hackable enough for BIOS work. Plus, the VGA->serial hardware is not something I need or want, since I run my own BIOS. I'm using two different systems with identical chi

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> > i have a quick question: any guess on whether lan1641 will work? i think it > should wok since it has National Semiconductor DP83816 chip but just wanted > to confirm. i have a 4801 with a 3 dp83816 chips and it works fine. - erik

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-25 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, thanks, geoff. this is really a good news!! i will try to order a 5501 box to play with it. i have a quick question: any guess on whether lan1641 will work? i think it should wok since it has National Semiconductor DP83816 chip but just wanted to confirm. regards dharani

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-24 Thread geoff
Since there's only an IDE controller, I assume that the SATA port is connected to it and runs any SATA device in non-AHCI (IDE-compatible) mode.

Re: [9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
thanks for the information, geoff. do you happen to know if the sata and pata ports are independent? another point of data, the 4801 also works with plan 9, given a bios != 1.20. - erik

[9fans] Soekris 5501s (was kenfs)

2008-02-24 Thread geoff
We have about a dozen Soekris 5501-70s here. We bought the first ones a few months ago, and have fixed or finished a few things as a result. Some of our machines have laptop IDE disks in them and most have compact flash cards to hold at least nvram, for booting as cpu servers. Sape was inspired t