Yan Seiner wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 7:48 am, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > > > > All possible hwmods I am thinking about (for SL-C3200): > > > > Replace HDD by a large CF > > Complexity: trivial replacement > > > > I'm really interested in this. I'd love to replace the internal hdd with > a 32 GB CF card.
There is several success stories in OESF forums. > Any HOWTOs out there for the SL-C3100? It seems, that it means nothing more than mechanical work with screwdriver - open, open cable locks, remove cables, get the PCB out, get the SD slot PCB out, get the plastic protective cover out. Now you have access to the internal CF slot, replace the card (and optionally shock protection straps) and then assemble everything again. Internal slot is CF-compatible, so there is absolutely no soldering. It would be nice to prepare bootloader on the disc. I am not sure, but the boot block probably contains the kernel flashing utility. The only problem I could expect is the software: Depending on the CF flash controller, there may appear a small block writing problem. If it appears, it causes write slowdown to ~50kB/sec. You can mount it with async option (which increases risk of data loss after crash). Better option may be flush mount option, but it is not yet supported by the busybox. Technical background: Flash memories have to erase 64 or 128kB of data to be able to write a sector. Depending on the controller, it may contain some optimizations, but sync write altogether with small blocks may invalidate them. Flush mount keeps buffers in memory for some time, but performs flush on close(). -- Stanislav Brabec http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/zaurus _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
