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Davesworld · 04-28-2006, 01:57 PM

The Promise controllers were not locked out, Snap simply didn't want to spend the extra man hours needed to upgrade the driver. The reason why it works in the 4000 is because those use the native Intel chipset ide controllers although the throughput is slower. The drivers for lba48 on promise chips came late and snapos is not exactly using a bleeding edge bsd kernel. As soon as I get a spare 4100, I'm going to see if I can get FreeNas onto the flash chip. Meanwhile, I can probe the 40 pin header to see what it is. I'm thinking that it connects to the flash drive from another computer and looks like a drive to it so a direct image write would make it easy for the mfrs to get it up and running since it is headless and has no terminal com port either.

04-28-2006, 01:57 PM	#30
Davesworld Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle, Wa Posts: 45	Re: Snap 4100 BIOS dump, unlocking 137 limit The Promise controllers were not locked out, Snap simply didn't want to spend the extra man hours needed to upgrade the driver. The reason why it works in the 4000 is because those use the native Intel chipset ide controllers although the throughput is slower. The drivers for lba48 on promise chips came late and snapos is not exactly using a bleeding edge bsd kernel. As soon as I get a spare 4100, I'm going to see if I can get FreeNas onto the flash chip. Meanwhile, I can probe the 40 pin header to see what it is. I'm thinking that it connects to the flash drive from another computer and looks like a drive to it so a direct image write would make it easy for the mfrs to get it up and running since it is headless and has no terminal com port either.