[syslinux] MEMDISK issue with OptiPlex GX280,620

[Jason Vasquez]

I had the opportunity today to test the debug builds on additional platforms. Hopefully, this can assist to some degree. As reported yesterday, the changes made are producing favorable results; though, like Gene my Latitude E6400 platform is still complaining and losing the drive. Test results below.

initrd image used: c.img
(A FreeDOS image) extracted from the following archive:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/guestos/freedos-img.tar.gz

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MEMDISK 4.02 pre1-177-g6632db7*
MEMDISK 4.02 pre1-178-gf76c5d0
Both versions detect internal SATA drive

OptiPlex 980 BIOS A05,
Intel Corporation 82578DM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10ef] (rev 05)

OptiPlex 780 BIOS A05,
Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10de] (rev 02)

OptiPlex 755 BIOS A17
Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10bd] (rev 02)

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MEMDISK 4.02 pre1-177-g6632db7*
Does not detect internal SATA drive
Reports message "We lost the last drive in our class of drives."

OptiPlex GX620 BIOS A08,
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)

OptiPlex GX280 BIOS A08,
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)

Latitude E6400 A27,
Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f5] (rev 03)
Intel Corporation WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150 [8086:423c]

Latitude  D820 A09,
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02)

Latitude  D810 A05, (PATA drive)
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection [8086:4220] (rev 05)

Latitude  D505 A11, (PATA drive)
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller [8086:103d] (rev 81)

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MEMDISK 4.02 pre1-178-gf76c5d0
Detects internal SATA drive for the following systems:
OptiPlex GX620 BIOS A08,
OptiPlex GX280 BIOS A08,
Latitude  D820 A09,
Latitude  D810 A05,
Latitude  D505 A11
NOTE:
Fails for the Latitude E6400 A27,
again reports "We lost the last drive in our class of drives."


Thank you for everyone's attention and efforts.

Regards.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shao Miller" <Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:51:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK issue with OptiPlex GX280,620

I'm glad that it is working so far...  If you could report success with 
another model, that might provide further evidence that the commits 
involved are worth merging into the mainline Syslinux.

- Shao Miller
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