Hi, > I checked the latest EPIA BIOS and it says USB-HDD. Under Linux, it uses USB and SCSI stack to access USB IDE harddisk or USB flash disk.
> I figured the USB stack was deep; I may do some experimenting with Linux > and booting from one of these and see what is involved. > I haven't checked the price to see how these compare with Compact Flash, > but the small size and ease of customer installation is attractive. The It is just a little more expensive than CF, but its size is much smaller. > CF requires an adaptor to IDE that is a little awkward. The USB flash > memory can be installed by a customer without opening the case, and > saves the price of a CDROM drive (and the mechanical failure problems > with a CDROM drive). All of this is from the standpoint of an embedded > system and may be of no interest to clusters. I think we can take a look at u-boot which has USB storage access already. -Andrew -- Andrew Ip Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (852) 2542 2046 Fax: (852) 2542 2036 Mobile: (852) 9201 9866 Cwlinux Limited Unit 202B 2/F Lai Cheong Factory Building, 479-479A Castle Peak Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. For public pgp key, please obtain it from http://www.keyserver.net/en. _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios