Re: [Soekris] Soekris-tech Digest, Vol 48, Issue 22

[Ray Brannam]

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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:01:07 -0600
From: "Darrick Hartman (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Soekris] net5501 cf booting as hdb
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Steve Holdoway wrote:

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:13:54 -0600
"Darrick Hartman (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Andy Michaels wrote:

On Feb 16, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote:

What would cause a net5501 to boot a compact flash as /dev/hdb?


Transcend Industrial (1GB Ultra non-dma fixed disk).


seem
to find it at the moment.

Darrick
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I have no other storage device connected. The compact flash card is a I thought there was a thread about this late last year, but I can't

Hmmm, the only thing I can suggest is to check your udev settings.

once had an issue where  my soekris box's NICs showed up as eth3,

the NICs on this soekris as new devices.  Sounds like that could be
what's happening to you.  Or, it might not be :)

I'm assuming you're using linux with a device name like "/dev/ hdb". I eth4, eth5. It turns out that because the disk image I used to set up that soekris was created on another soekris, it (correctly) recognized

I'm guessing not.  The CF is being detected the the net5501 bios as
being primary slave.

That's just the way they're made. Some are set up as primary, some secondary...

I guess I can live with that as long as it's going to stay the same on
each boot.

Looking back through the online archives, I did find where this was
mentioned as far back as 2004 and saw the full explanation about how
some cards don't properly initialize the cable select function.  At

as INNODISK iCF 2000.  These won't even boot in a net5501.  They will
work in some other devices I have though so worse case, I have 2 1GB
cards for my camera.

Darrick
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Darrick Hartman
DJH Solutions, LLC
http://www.djhsolutions.com


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least these boot. I ran across some "industrial" cards that are labeled

Ray Brannam
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There is a BIOS setting that permits you to select which device is hda and which is hdb, I do not remember what the syntax is, but "?" will show you. I have a 2Gb CF card an ATA drive in my net5501, I found that I can make either one of the two devices be hda or hdb; however, I think that this only applies to these two situations: a CF card and an ATA drive or a CF card and a SATA drive.

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