Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote (ao): > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Sander <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. Why can't you just > > use an usb-to-serial cable? > > reliability of the usb-to-serial cable. i.e. many people have found > them to be utterly, utterly shit. to the extent that, it is > well-known and *already* in the linux kernel source tree, for at least > 18 months possibly more, that the support for e.g. GL830 usb-to-sata
Issues with usb-to-sata don't affect usb-to-serial, do they? FWIW, I use a handful of http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A and they've never failed me, with arm and x86 as both source and destination. I have an openrd-client (7x usb) in use as a consoleserver. Sander > IC actually has an algorithm "if chip crashes then reset it without > notifying the user, repeat until success". trimslice used the GL830 > in one of their boxes (the one with the nvidia tegra), and it wasn't a > good idea. > > on the other hand, some people have reported that if you pick the > right usb-to-sata flash drive, you can get exceptional reliability. > gordon on arm-netbooks did a write-up about 18 months ago - he's > extremely knowledgeable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130314082645.GA29930@panda
