[GRLUG] RaspBerry Pi

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:58 PM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 14:54, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hrm.. all taht USB can be hubbed.
>>
>> If one finds a sufficiently reliable USB hub. Scenario screams "not
>> easily serviceable by manufacturer"
>
> Not sure what that means. Surely finding a basic reliable USB hub cant
> be THAT hard?

Probably not, but then it wouldn't be cheap; you're asking for
something designed for industrial use, not
user-goes-to-Walgreens-when-it-breaks use.

>
>>
>>> And this uses an SD card slot as its
>>> "hard drive", so no need for IDE or SATA.. And it has ethernet.
>>
>> SD, SDHC or SDXC?
>
> Not sure, but I cant imagine needing more than basic SD would support.

SD only supports cards up to 2GB. That's not a lot of space. It's
certainly possible to fit an OS into that amount of space, but it's
more work. SDHC goes up to 32GB.

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