Previously you wrote: > wireless wrote: >> I did not see a SATA or IDE bus support? Is this possible? Or is >> SD my only choice? > > I would ask in the right community to get better answers. > But the pictures at least clearly show USB connectors besides SD.
I looked at the schematic and saw nothing. I saw the USB, but wanted SATA, as in a home-built Netbook type of application was my immediate desire. With that kind of processing power and DVI & HDMI out, I had a hard time believing there is no SATA native or hacked hardware solution. It's intended for mobile, so why not support sata (for laptop size HD)? Hard to believe that was missed or is not forthcoming, imho. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=4&chap=9 I looked at the url above and saw no listing of sata. I read about this off of the gentoo embedded handbook as the latest entry {boards 9}, so I was hoping Armin or somebody had tried Sata or knew of a Sata solution for this hardware maybe in a different (newly pending) version of the processor or board. This is the right community, since it is clearly posted in the handbook. I will post elsewhere and I have already asked TI directly about sata support on that OMAP family.... but no answers yet. Much of the information and docs are just too new to be complete. Just like the previous OSWALD-gentoo connection that I discovered, flushing out a story in the Linux Journal on this list, I hoped to uncover a deep connection between PandaBoard and Gentoo........... Who knows maybe somebody else on this list, besides Armin, is deeply involved in the PandaBoard efforts. No doubt, since the gerbers et. al. exist, it wont be long before somebody puts a SATA bus interface, to this project. Me, I can think of DNS servers (sata not required); AND mail servers and media servers where SATA is critical, just off the top of my head. Sure USB is ok, but native sata would be much cooler, imho. Power savings alone will pay for the $174(us) price tag. I've already ordered one from digikey. So sorry if I ruffled your feathers..... (apologies, my Liege)! James
