From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 16 10:32:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FC037C04F for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:32:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01135; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:32:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA96281; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:32:28 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003161832.LAA96281@harmony.village.org> To: "Tim Dysinger" Subject: Re: Iopener SanDisk - Primary or Secondary IDE? Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org, csg@waterspout.com, chip@eboai.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> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:32:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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