@rcasas:
I have purchased 2 units of this hardware, and I have problems installing pfSense the full version on a 2,5'' HDD. The problems are about UDMA, and it seems to be the 44 pin cable because I've used other cable (the one which is included in a Soekris hard disk kit) and pfSense installed with no problem. The big problem is that the Soekris cable is only 1cm long.
Has anyone installed pfSense full version in the FX5620?
Yes I had the same problem:
I found that the problem was due to it trying to use UDMA100, and that's
not really possible on a 2.5" drive with a 44 pin cable.
atacontrol mode ad0 udma33
in the shell allowed me to complete the install
then I added
hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
into /boot/loader.conf which turns off dma for the hard drive
seems to have fixed all the issues.
I tried adding <earlyshellcmd>atacrontrol mode ad0
udma33</earlyshellcmd> into config.xml but didn't manage to get that to
work.
Nick.
http://linitx.com