From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Alexander Clouter Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:12:37 +0000 Message-ID: References: <3m5l96-cht.ln1@woodchuck.wormnet.eu> <7e27b98a05b16ea35fd892381cd5ce12@quanstro.net> User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-1-sparc64 (sparc64)) Subject: Re: [9fans] hardware idea Topicbox-Message-UUID: c252cb60-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik quanstrom 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.