FATAL ERROR: No hard disk found (compact flash)

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Hello - I’m experience trouble getting MikroTik installed onto a machine with a compact flash (CF) storage system (no hard disk). The system is an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 Ghz. I’ve tried two motherboards: Foxcomm and Intel Media Series boards with the MT Quad gigabit ethernet PCI card. I’ve tried two CF to IDE and two CF to SATA adaptors (wisp-router.com and addtronics.com respectively). I’ve tried two 256 Mb CF modules (SanDisk and a cheap-o CF).

In all combinations I get a…

Welcome to MikroTik Router Software hard disk installation
Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to abort

FATAL ERROR: No hard disk found
Press ENTER to reboot

:frowning:

I have tried countless bios settings to circumvent this, but I think it has something to do with these Core 2 Duo motherboards or processors. As on an old AMD system here, it works. :question:

I’m using netinstall to load the image via a CF to USB card reader. I’ve looked around it seems physdiskwrite.exe isn’t used anymore to load the image - I really liked loading the image that way.

Can anyone offer any suggestions on this? I’m having a lot of difficulty and I’ve tried to do as much homework on this as possible before writing to the forum. I’ve done this before on Pentium 3 & 4 based hardware using a CF to IDE Sandisk 256 CF Type II and I’ve had no trouble.

Thanks for you help :slight_smile:

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I have now tried a third motherboard. It is an Intel motherboard supporting Intel Pentium 4 with SATA and IDE ports. Seems the IDE port works with MikroTik on this board, but the SATA port shows the same problem. I notice the Bios on this Intel P4 board is more flexible with SATA/PATA/IDE port assignments.

Preliminarily I would say MT definately has trouble with the new style Intel Core 2 Duo processors/Motherboard combinations and SATA ports. If the BIOS supports IDE as the primary port and you have a CF to IDE adaptor, it will probably work (I know this with the P4 and the P4 board) - as far as the Core 2 Duo based boards - I am not sure as all the boards seem to only support SATA as the preffered choice of native hard drive connectivity.

Now that being said, the CF to SATA does boot up the MT installation - but the installation does proceed and I have that message that shows up (as previously described)

Still looking for input (and love to get the Core 2 working), if anyone has any ideas.

Thanks again

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maybe because MT ROS v2.9 does not support sata.

only possibility you might have is sata legacy mode

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Mikrotik does not seem to work on Intel 865 and newer based mainboards even if sata is in legacy. Also ver 3 beta does not seem to work either on these boards.

Linux also have problems and can’t work if not started with all-generic-ide, pci=nommconf kernel parameter.

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:frowning: i bought motherboard (ASUS P5B-V - G965) and cpu (INTEL Core 2 Duo E6320)
special for mikrotik . Now i have the same problem . no HDD found..


i tried setup SATA configuration to disabled, enhanced, compatible.. but all three posibility are not working .

i can see ,there is some Jmicron SATA/PATA controller.

Please.. what can i do to boot miktorik successfully on this machine?

is any chance to will have support for this pata controler in the future ?
Thank you for your help.

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I think for now u must use a 3.5" HDD or a 2.5" HDD

Hmmm, MT is thinking about you

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