From: Alexandre P. N. <al...@om...> - 2006-06-19 20:09:15
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Benoit Hudzia escreveu: > HI , > > I m actually thinking about a strange idea, that seems a little bit > against the purpose of having a very small embedded system. > > But is there a way to plug an IDE HDD to a compact flash connector > (like the one on the NETCF boards) . I think its possible but I didn’t > find any connector on the net so far . Actually after looking at the > spec I’m sure it’s possible because CF->IDE connector are easily > found. But I cannot found any commercially available one. The idea is > to connect the gum stick directly to the HDD and act as a NAS.. and > implement an easy way to cluster multiple system together and add > fault tolerance and probably p2p maintenance … > > Thanks > > Benoit Hudzia > > PhD Student > > PCRG group > > University College Dublin > The closest to that that I've found is this link: http://www.xscale-freak.com/XSDoc/PXA27X/30842201.pdf I'm not sure if the pxa 255 used on gumstix has the same semantics, but ... - Alexandre |