Re: 32 GB SanDisk Ultra hangs net5501

Hi,

thanks for your answer, see my comments below.

On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 00:23 CEST, Jed Clear <[email protected]> wrote: 
 
> Something basic perhaps, like did the boot sector and loader get properly installed?   Although I would expect some complaint from the comBios in that case. 
> 
> Next thing, is you OS image configured for a serial console in all boot stages. I can only speak about FreeBSD, where ISTR three files need touching. 

i think it gets stuck even before trying to boot the OS. It's still in the comBIOS, when it tries to detect the geometry and
size of the CF Card. 

Normally on the right side of the last line, where it prints the Disk, it should usually write something about LBA  XXX-YYY-ZZZ and the size of the disk.

The other old CF Card I currently use, its a 2GB SanDisk, but with lower speed, only 15 MB/s IIRC.
This 32GB CF Card has 50MB/s. 

When I tried the 32GB Card on my desktop, I was able to reset the MBR with fdisk, create OpenBSD partition, marked it active
as bootable and also updated machine boot code in MBR, without issues. But still, it did not helped.

If desired, I can send fdisk and disklabel output.

cheers,
Sebastian


> -Jed
> 
> > On Jun 10, 2014, at 5:43 AM, "Sebastian Reitenbach" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I bought a SanDisk Ultra 32GB, in order to upgrade the disk in my net5501,> however, with the new CF card plugged in, the box doesn't boot it stops here:
> > 
> > comBIOS ver. 1.33  20070103  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.
> > 
> > net5501
> > 
> > 0512 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz 
> > 
> > Pri Mas  SanDisk SDCFHSNJC-032G
> > 
> > And then just hangs, I waited a couple of minutes before power cycled the
> > box. I tried with all three comBIOS version available from the downloads site [1]
> > More googling, I found some related issues with solutions on that page here [2]
> > However, also setting the flash=secondary
> > only changed the last line starting with "Pri Mas" to "Pri Sla"
> > but it still did hang.
> > 
> > I tried this CF card on my desktop, and I was able to access it without issue.
> > 
> > Other than having the COM speed set to 9600, no other changes to the settings
> > of the box.
> > 
> > Any other ideas I could approach, besides trying different CF cards from
> > other vendors?
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Sebastian
> > 
> > [1] http://soekris.com/downloads.html
> > [2] http://soekris.com/Issue0006/
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