Re: 32 GB SanDisk Ultra hangs net5501

For the records, maybe it will help someone sometimes:

I bought a 32GB Kingston ultimate, which worked just fine in the net5501.

Then I tried the SanDisk on a net4801, with the same result as on the 5501,
hangs when it tries to detect the geometry.

Sebastian
 
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 08:05 CEST, "Sebastian Reitenbach" <[email protected]> wrote: 
 
> 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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