From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 16 10:25:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from warspite.cnchost.com (warspite.concentric.net [207.155.248.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0103B37BC41 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:25:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@wrchq.com) Received: from loneranger (ts010d44.por-or.concentric.net [206.173.161.248]) by warspite.cnchost.com id NAA13070; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:25:27 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.8] Message-ID: <005701bf8f74$aeb0e4b0$fc8b898b@silver.net> Reply-To: "Tim Dysinger" From: "Tim Dysinger" To: Cc: "Warner Losh" , , References: <000701bf8f70$2c4b8880$fc8b898b@silver.net> <200003161807.LAA96019@harmony.village.org> Subject: Iopener SanDisk - Primary or Secondary IDE? Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:23:06 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I was in the store hacking on the demo unit, I was able to gain root through a QNX console. I noticed that, in the award bios, the SanDisk reports itself as the secondary during the "detect ide drives" function. But... The bios is by default set to boot from "C only". I know that the SanDisk and/or controller does some "smart" drive switch during boot. If there is no hard drive attached as primary then it makes the SanDisk the primary and boots it. If there is a hard drive attached it makes the SanDisk the secondary drive. My question is has anybody else seen this before? What do you have to look out for when preparing an image for such a "smart-switching" SanDisk device. I am new to flash devices. -tim (tim.dysinger@csgpro.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message