JackOfAll wrote: > There will be a SATA data header and a 4 pin Molex power header on the > CSP board. (Only 5V available from the Molex header, which will be OK > for most SSD's that either operate directly on 5V or have an internal > regulator which drops the 5V to 3.3V. If you also require the 12V rail, > you'll need an external power supply, rather than being able to use a > single 5V supply to power the board and drive.)
That's good to know. I don't recall seeing that mentioned before. I may be wrong, but I think most people who intend to attach a SATA drive will be using an HDD, not an SSD, as it's main use would music storage, and SSD just isn't very cheap for the kind of storage that many people need. > EDIT: Once you have the rootfs on a drive, there is no going back to the > sdcard. It seems painfully slow. I've just gone back to the 4GB SDCARD > image for the QUAD. Updating LMS rpm seemed to take forever...... I've seen it mentioned several times on the Wandboard mailing list that using a class 10 card makes a world of difference. > Before anyone asks, and I don't know when I'm going to have the time to > do this, but the plan is to make a "split" image for the QUAD for people > who will use a SATA drive. A small 50MB /boot partition (image) for a > SDCARD to boot from, (so you can use any size sdcard you can lay your > hands on, it doesn't have to be 4GB), and the main image for the drive, > with a 4GB rootfs partition, that will grow to fill the disk on the > first boot. Is that really worth the effort? A 4GB microSD card costs about $6 today. When a SATA drive is present, will the system have to boot from the drive instead of the microSD card, or how will that work? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
