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From: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] hardware idea
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:12:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lavm96-nj1.ln1@woodchuck.wormnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e27b98a05b16ea35fd892381cd5ce12@quanstro.net>

erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> Probably easier to develop on:
>>
>> http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7800
>>
>> The NAND annoyingly is not via the SoC and there are a few other quirks
>> however as you can boot off the SD card (making it unbrickable and dead
>> easy to play with kernel dev work), it has real serial ports where you
>> do not have to faff with to get them and of course the SATA ports.
>
> nice find.  thanks.  too bad it doesn't expose all 4 sata ports.  and way too
> bad that currently 0 < toy budget < $1.
>
The Marvell SoC only has the one controller with two ports going out
anway so I am pretty sure it's a SATA port multiplier you would be
playing around with in there, and that's going to be fustrating.

Cheers

--
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: manic-depressive, adj.:
                  	Easy glum, easy glow.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-22 17:37 erik quanstrom
2009-03-23 19:48 ` Alexander Clouter
2009-03-23 22:04   ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-24  6:20     ` cinap_lenrek
2009-03-23 23:22       ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-24 12:12     ` Alexander Clouter [this message]
2009-03-24 13:49       ` erik quanstrom

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