Non-embedded microdrive install issues
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I guess I don't see how it is the "fault" of the Seagate drive, which works perfectly with every other OS, including version 4 of FreeBSD. It's only version 5 and 6 where the driver is borked for the Seagate. Yes, it would be nice if everyone could wave a magic wand and their Seagate drives would magically become Hitachi. But some folks (even folks writing this very message) already HAVE a number of Seagate drives and would dearly love to task them running pfSense walls.
This is really at the feet of the FreeBSD team. Unfortunately I don't see anyone busting it to get this bug fixed. Maybe you should have put a higher priority on the bug when you reported it. I don't quite understand why it was assigned with "low" priority. It's pretty damned high priority if you can't get your firewall running, to my way of thinking.
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Unfortunately at the time I submitted that message I figured that it wasnt that big of a deal and they would get to it eventually.. I didnt know that it would be completely ignored. Is there a way I can change the priority or is it too late now? I myself had 2 seagate microdrives and luckily I was able to swap out one with an hitachi at no cost but I have to eat the cost on the 2nd because I dont work for the company I deployed this at anymore. I want it to be as easy as possible for my old boss and replacement to maintain and upgrade. I ordered another hitachi today and will go back in to swap the drive next week.
Thanks
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Well, you could probably help by working with them, probably on the freebsd-stable mailing list. I'm pretty sure that the use of CF microdrives are an edge case and, as a result, not likely to receive any attention otherwise.
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support 8G CF .Thanks for the advertisement, but the IDE-CF adapter has nothing whatever to do with the problem. The BSD kernel fails to recognize the Seagate CF microdrive after the BIOS bootloader is finished. (And I did try four different brands of IDE-CF adapter with identical results.)
I think you must embed an Seagate IC , I use FreeBSD boot from CF too , It works well
