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John

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Posted: Sep. 25 2005,22:45

We are still taking orders. I am going to make it an ongoing item.

Unfortunately there is a delay in the initial order, the manufacturer is out of stock and there will be a two or three week delay.

WearableCluster
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Posted: Oct. 05 2005,07:56

What chipset does the nano-itx motherboard have? I'd love to have Linux BIOS running on such a machine. Even without running a disk you could have a compressed ramdisk with some utilites to do basic things. I did see a website with the 40 GB microdrive used in the new ipod. :cool:

That's twice the hard drive I have in the Debian 1GHz PIII Laptop i'm typing on right now. If you had Linux with a few utilities you could do simple things like text editing etc. from a ram disk in memory and spin up the microdrive to save it later. Remember, with wearable computing every milliamp counts... I have an IPaq 3800 which I could use as a screen. (The earphone jack broke which also prevents the speaker from working, so I have no sound)

so I got a gumstix with the audio stixboard ... I still have to build a little case for it though...

PS. This message was supposed to go here. Can anyone nuke the "chipset" topic?

Matjo
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Posted: Oct. 05 2005,23:48

So the memory is not expandable? I was hoping for a SODIMM connector.

Jagasian

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Posted: Oct. 10 2005,18:46

Any chance that a double-decker CF-IDE adapter will fit in the machine? It would be nice to be able to use two CF cards for 8GB maximum internal flash storage. The pics show a parallel port but no TV video out. Is that backplane an accurate representation of the I/O available on the final unit? It is nice to see the parallel port, as I mainly want to use this in place of legacy systems.

One more question, is it possible to setup DSL to act as a USB storage device? That is, is it possible to make the Nano-ITX machine behave as if it were a USB hard drive when connected to another computer via the USB port? That would be great for sharing files with people, as you could always keep your DSL Nano-ITX machine on you. Setting up a network file share takes more effort than simply plugging in a USB drive.

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 11 2005,17:57

The problem is that your USB ports are connected to a USB host CONTROLLER instead of a USB device.

However, it should be possible to use some kind of special device driver to make a usb port behave as if it is a slave somehow.

I believe that this is how USB to USB file transfers are done using 3rd party utilities like Norton Ghost or laplink.

If a Linux driver exists for a similar operating mode, it is possible in theory but you would need to compile the driver and install it in order for it to work.

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