On 08/01/2013 12:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:59:47AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 1 August 2013 09:53, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I know that several ARMS talk to disks via the USB chain versus a
dedicated SATA like connection. This causes all kinds of issues when 2
things talk down the bus to the disk drive (just like if it is a
spinning disk). The same with network and other peripheals. It will
depend on how the hardware sees it and talks to it to know if it will
work well or not. [My kingdom for an ARM PCI bus :)]
Send me your kingdom... there's now a number of ARM devices with PCI-e
buses, or SATA/NICs plugged directly into the SoC so not hanging off
crappy USB/SPI/GPIO/i2c buses :-D
But are the devices Richard has those?
The Trim Slice *has* a PCI bus (apparently unusual for ARM). However
mine doesn't have SATA because it's the cheaper model, and I'm not
clear how the micro SD and SD card ports are routed.
So, the SATA models of the Trim Slice use a USB-SATA bridge, so your
still in that boat.
On the subject of devices that do have native SATA support.
1) http://cubieboard.org/
2) http://utilite-computer.com/
(The Trim Slice successor, although its SATA is on an mSATA interface.)
--
Scott Sullivan
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