Hi Lon & List,
Lon Willett wrote:
On 2013-05-05 22:19, Denis Fortin wrote:
> 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.
> ...
>
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.
So is there any word from Soekris? It seems like the simple workaround
of "if the disk is too big, then ignore it" would not be too hard to
implement. Or is the problem more subtle?
As most know, USB is a set of complex protocols and sometimes something
don't work, it's not like there are any specific limitations. The
priority is to support the internal USB connector to be used for flash
for permanent booting and otherwise the external USB connector to
install from.
The USB code is something we licensed, we do have the source (in x86
assembler) and will work to improve it, but it's currently not highest
priority. And as a small company we just can't purchase all kind of
hardware to test with.
We just added some manpower and will work to make a list of things known
and not known to work.
Best Regards,
Soren Kristensen
CEO & Chief Engineer
Soekris Engineering, Inc.
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