Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:32:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Tim Dysinger" <tim.dysinger@csgpro.com> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org, csg@waterspout.com, chip@eboai.org Subject: Re: Iopener SanDisk - Primary or Secondary IDE? Message-ID: <200003161832.LAA96281@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:23:06 PST." <005701bf8f74$aeb0e4b0$fc8b898b@silver.net> References: <005701bf8f74$aeb0e4b0$fc8b898b@silver.net> <000701bf8f70$2c4b8880$fc8b898b@silver.net> <200003161807.LAA96019@harmony.village.org>
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In message <005701bf8f74$aeb0e4b0$fc8b898b@silver.net> "Tim Dysinger" writes: : 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. No smart switching here. The CF disk can be forced to act just like an IDE device by grounding OE. We have several CF <-> IDE adapters running around here that do that. What this means is that if you have a hard drive, it will be C. If you don't, then the CF part onboard is C. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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