[SeaBIOS] Issues with ASRock E350M1

Scott Duplichan scott at notabs.org
Sun Jun 5 09:46:45 CEST 2011


Marshall Buschman wrote:

]Or not! It's back. Same issue as before.
]
]Quoting mbuschman at lucidmachines.com:
]
]> Mystery solved - the drive's shipping firmware was causing this  
]> behavior - an upgrade to the latest firmware (2.0) resolves this.
]>
]> Thanks!
]> -Marshall Buschman
]>
]> Quoting mbuschman at lucidmachines.com:
]>
]>> I should mention that a 16gb Kingston SSD I have works just fine,  
]>> as well as a 500gb traditional hard disk.
]>> Looks like this might be a problem with the disk itself. I know the  
]>> Sandforce controllers do all kinds of "smart" things like  
]>> compressing data to achieve greater throughput. I'll investigate  
]>> and see what I can find.

Hello Marshall,

An SSD drive I bought for boot time testing also has the
SandForce sf-1200 controller:
http://www.mushkin.com/Digital-Storage/SSDs/MKNSSDCL40GB-DX.aspx

I have not noticed any detection problem with it. Let me know 
if there is any experiment I could do with it.

Thanks,
Scott




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