On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 08:07 +0100, Ian Barton wrote: > However, I have now transferred to an external Freecom usb hard drive, > which is powered by the Sheeva (no external PSU). This had worked fine > for more than a month and I haven't seen any load problems.
I can confirm that a sheevaplug running debian on an external disk can be quite stable even if used heavily (here doing compilation+tests in loop): $ uptime 22:28:24 up 116 days, 10:35, 1 user, load average: 2.13, 2.08, 2.08 $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.30-2-kirkwood (Debian 2.6.30-8) (wa...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-3) ) #1 Sun Sep 27 22:57:55 UTC 2009 $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 292G 35G 258G 12% / Laurent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1270931879.3949.582.ca...@pc2.unassigned-domain