I was worried you'd say that. No dice. I touched that pin up, then just for fun went over every other pin on the IDE connector with a Weller WESD51 set to 630F, using .015" 62/36/2 silver solder and some acid-free flux. I can test continuity from the tips of the header pins to the solder blobs on the board for all 44 pins.

Is the IDE controller built-in to the StrongARM? If so, are there pins there that I should be looking at? If not, where is it on the board?

Okay, I went through the complete boot log and found this:

Code:
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc_init couldn't find card


Looks like the ethernet controller is not being recognized. May be an issue with the PCMCIA bus from the StrongArm? I read a bit of the datasheet and noticed the two PCMCIA busses. I figure this is where the IDE controller and Ethernet controller reside?


Edited by FieroSTi (15/01/2016 22:48)