[ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

Jim Hawkins jawkins at armedslack.org
Thu Jan 6 22:40:05 UTC 2011


On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Stuart Winter wrote:

> I just tried rebooting one of the SPs and the drive times out and u-boot 
> reboots, then it works.

The spin-up timeout in u-boot is set to 5 seconds, which seems a bit low - 
the specs for my drive say the typical drive ready time is 13s. I've 
increased the timeout to 30s and now it seems to work reliably.

> The boot command in the docs has "reset" as the last command, but you
> never read my docs do you ;-)

Nope :)

Cheers,

Jim


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