[SunHELP] Can't use flash memory as an IDE device (netra X1) (embedded solaris)

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I have connected the flash card as the slave device on the primary channel, 
and as the master device on the secondary channel.  The flash adaptor has a 
jumper that allows it to be set either master or slave.

On both occassions the OS begins to boot off the normal 20gig IDE hard 
drive, then bombs out with the errors I included in my post.

Is there a switch to the boot command that will instruct the OS not to 
detect new hardware and try to do anything with it?  I would like to at 
least be able to boot the OS with that flash device in the chain.

The fact that all is well in the probe-ide output leads me to believe that 
the IDE chain is good - the OS is just confused by what it sees (for some 
reason)

--LT



>Just off the top of my head, have you tried connecting the flash memory 
>card
>to the second IDE channel as master/slave rather than the primary channel 
>as
>master? (I'm assuming the X1 does actually have 2 channels.)
>
>I've had IDE devices do some strange things in specific (admittedly
>PC-based) hardware setups, for instance we have some Aopen CD-ROMs that'll
>only allow the machine to boot into linux if they're set to secondary 
>slave.
>
>What I'm wondering is how does the flash device know where on the IDE chain
>it is, master/slave-wise?
>
>Will.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "list tracker" <list_tracker at hotmail.com>
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 11:34 PM
>Subject: [SunHELP] Can't use flash memory as an IDE device (netra X1)
>(embedded solaris)
>
>
> >
> > As many of you probably know, sandisk compact-flash flash memory 
>actually
> > pins out directly to IDE.  In fact, every computer I have ever plugged a
>CF
> > flash card into the IDE chain, it has seen it as just a plain old IDE
>device
> > - albeit small.
><snip relevant stuff>
>
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