Thank you, thank you! Your new uboot procedure works with my GoFlex Net. With a USB stick and no SATA drive, it boots from the USB stick. With no USB stick and one SATA drive, it boots from the SATA in either slot. With no USB stick and two SATA drives, it boots from the right-slot SATA. It's difficult to argue with success. However, I do note the following anomaly booting ArchLiby arbie2 - uBoot
Mr M Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can you use any sata disk to a GoFlex Home or do > you need a Seagate freeagent enclosed disk? I use a $2 eBay Male to Female 7+15 Pin Serial ATA Extension Cable to connect a notebook drive to my GoFlex Net. I plan to use the same for the GoFlex Home, whenever it arrives.by arbie2 - Debian
Dave, I have 5 Dockstars, and I've had zero problems with any. I even run FreeBSD one. I also have a new, in-the-box Goflex Net. After reading Goflex posts regarding "bad flash", SATA boots from either connector, Linux 3.2 kernels, L2 cache, the right archnumber, eSATA vs.Sheeva as a default, etc., my head hurts. Does this U-boot include all of the above in a single biby arbie2 - uBoot
I too have seen "Device not ready" errors, both warm and cold boots, with my $20 1.8" 20GB Toshiba drives. I have not seen this error with any of my other disks or flash drives. U-boot's "usb start/reset" always finds the Toshiba, but the subsequent "fatload/ext2load" fails randomly with "Device not ready". I have also observed that once aby arbie2 - uBoot
My two $20.00 1.8 inch 20GB Toshiba drives arrived yesterday. I was surprised by their small size--about that of a business card. A drive fits nicely on the Dockstar's back ledge. As a quick test, I used dd to copy a Dockstar FreeBSD 8.1 system from a 2.5 inch 20GB Hitachi to one of the Toshiba's. The new Toshiba boots fine on the Dockstar. I don't see any performance differby arbie2 - Debian
Good find! I believe these 20GB drives are 4200 rpm. The 4200 rpm is not intended to be a pejorative. I have a swamp of Dockstars with 2.5" drives--ranging from 4200 rpm 20GB Hitachi IC25N020's to 5400 rpm 250 GB WD WD2500BEVs--running a dog's breakfast of operating systems--FreeBSD 8.1, Linux 2.6.35.1, OPENWRT (of unknown pedigree), etc.. I have a difficult time detectingby arbie2 - Debian