Re: [beagleboard] Unlimited storage on Amazon cloud drive for $5

2015-11-29 Thread William Hermans
> > *. . .the only purpose of a RAID backup is to prevent a single point of > failure (like a disk failure) resulting in lost backups.* You do not need a RAID array to prevent a single point of failure. You take those 3+ disks, put them in 3 different machines. Or even in the same machine as

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Out yet?

2015-11-29 Thread William Hermans
Guys, if it's not from Digikey, Adafruit, Amazon, or the like. Forget about it. Amazon is actually bad enough as usually when dev boards sell there, they're sold by a third party for a huge markup. On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 2:52 PM, David Culp wrote: > That is the other place I

Re: [beagleboard] BBB's X-loader source code

2015-11-29 Thread John Syne
What else can I say. X-Loader no longer exists. It is now known as SBL ("Secondary Boot Loader" I believe) and is built as part of u-boot. If you want to customize it, customize SBL. After you build u-boot, you will have a file called MLO and that is what use to be known as xloader. Regards,

Re: [beagleboard] BBB's X-loader source code

2015-11-29 Thread Maxim Podbereznyy
SPL 2015-11-29 23:33 GMT+03:00 John Syne : > What else can I say. X-Loader no longer exists. It is now known as SBL > ("Secondary Boot Loader" I believe) and is built as part of u-boot. If you > want to customize it, customize SBL. After you build u-boot, you will have > a

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Out yet?

2015-11-29 Thread Graham Haddock
I found another one: http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?2221755_g10e Claims they have one in stock. I am sure they will say they have just sold it to someone else if you order it, and your waiting time for the next delivery is 8 weeks. Except that they will keep forgetting to take that one

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Out yet?

2015-11-29 Thread David Culp
That is the other place I saw, both places looked shady so I wanted to check first as I was pretty sure the board was not due out until at least mid-December or later. On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 11:05:03 AM UTC-6, Graham wrote: > > I found another one: > >

Re: [beagleboard] BBB's X-loader source code

2015-11-29 Thread John Syne
Yep, thanks for the corrections. SPL - Secondary Program Loader Regards, John > On Nov 29, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Maxim Podbereznyy wrote: > > SPL > > 2015-11-29 23:33 GMT+03:00 John Syne >: > What else can I say. X-Loader no

Re: [beagleboard] Unlimited storage on Amazon cloud drive for $5

2015-11-29 Thread John Syne
Hi William, My comment was just a heads up so other developer’s don’t get take a hit like I did. Just look at your disk SMART data and you will be surprised by the number of errors on those disks. Here is an example of SMART info from one of my 4TB WD disks I use with TimeMachine. As you can

Re: [beagleboard] microSD card size limitation

2015-11-29 Thread Graham
OK. I found that NewEgg has SanDisk 128GB cards on "Black Friday" special pricing. I'll report back with test results. --- Graham == On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 10:59:22 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > Here's the deal 'sdhc' cards are only spec to 32gb... The 'IP' on the > am335x,

Re: [beagleboard] Out yet?

2015-11-29 Thread Gerald Coley
No boards have shipped. We are in layout to fix FCC issues. We are hoping to get a few boards out by the end of the year. Gerald On Nov 28, 2015 11:41 PM, "David Culp" wrote: > I didn't think it was due out until mid-December. I'm seeing one or two > places on the net that

Re: [beagleboard] microSD card size limitation

2015-11-29 Thread William Hermans
Someone claimed to have gotten a 128GB sdxc card working some time back. Like Robert says, if you search the group it will probably turn up. On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Graham wrote: > OK. I found that NewEgg has SanDisk 128GB cards on "Black Friday" special >

[beagleboard] Re: Out yet?

2015-11-29 Thread Graham
David: Who is saying they have stock? I am always looking for scumbag vendors to NEVER buy from. --- Graham == On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 11:41:29 PM UTC-6, David Culp wrote: > > I didn't think it was due out until mid-December. I'm seeing one or two > places on the net that claim to

[beagleboard] Re: BBB's X-loader source code

2015-11-29 Thread Bharath R
But I intend to customize and configure it. Regards, Bharath -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

[beagleboard] Re: Unlimited storage on Amazon cloud drive for $5

2015-11-29 Thread cl
John Syne wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: UTF-8, 156 lines --] > > Yeah, but rsync only gives you a snapshot and not a history of your backup. > When I really mess up, I want to go back to the state of my machine 15 > minutes ago, or two days

[beagleboard] Re: Unlimited storage on Amazon cloud drive for $5

2015-11-29 Thread cl
William Hermans wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 107 lines --] > > For my usage, RAID is useless. Better to use separate disks, and rsync. As > most data does not need to be redundant, and you get more storage that way, > with very little to go wrong. >

[beagleboard] Re: Out yet?

2015-11-29 Thread David Culp
Here is one place: http://www.neutronusa.com/prod.cfm/2368628/glb?gclid=CJXhrIOEtskCFQaJaQod5iII_A i have never heard of the place before. I saw at least one other place claiming to have boards in stock but they are not coming up in a google search right now. On Sunday, November 29, 2015

Re: [beagleboard] user LEDs won't turn on and board won't boot

2015-11-29 Thread William Hermans
Using a serial debug cable will give you a better idea of what's going on. It will not always let you know exactly what the problem is, but based on what you get as output, someone here could give you a better idea what's happening. Passed that . . . try flashing this to sdcard, and booting

[beagleboard] user LEDs won't turn on and board won't boot

2015-11-29 Thread Bryan Hood
I've got a beagle bone black that used to have debian on it, but it's been sitting on my desk unpowered for over a year. I recently tried booting it, but the user LEDs won't turn on; only the power LED will light up. I tried programming the on board flash, and booting from a microSD card, but

[beagleboard] Assembler errors when compiling sleep33xx.S of beaglebone kernel with ubuntu arm gcc

2015-11-29 Thread Thilo Cestonaro
Hey all! I want to compile a kernel derived from (https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/4.1) with the standard arm gcc from ubuntu. $ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.9 --version arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.9 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.3-4ubuntu1) 4.9.3 But I get the following compile error:

Re: [beagleboard] user LEDs won't turn on and board won't boot

2015-11-29 Thread Bryan Hood
Hi William, I tried flashing the eMMC as you suggested, but no luck. The LEDs never turned on, so I just waited a very long time. I'll work on getting the serial output next. Thanks, Bryan On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 7:44 PM, William Hermans wrote: > Using a serial debug cable

Re: [beagleboard] user LEDs won't turn on and board won't boot

2015-11-29 Thread William Hermans
Make sure your serial adapter is 3v3 ttl. On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Bryan Hood wrote: > Hi William, > > I tried flashing the eMMC as you suggested, but no luck. The LEDs never > turned on, so I just waited a very long time. I'll work on getting the > serial output

Re: [beagleboard] HW Timestamping on beaglebone black

2015-11-29 Thread John Syne
You might find this presentation helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNiOlRi8jK4=37=PLGeM09tlguZTPUxEvsQiDgX0XDjfOL6oR Regards, John > On Nov 27, 2015, at 2:28 AM, hllpc

Re: [beagleboard] Unlimited storage on Amazon cloud drive for $5

2015-11-29 Thread John Syne
That makes perfect sense. BTW, the only purpose of a RAID backup is to prevent a single point of failure (like a disk failure) resulting in lost backups. One thing to pay attention to is the MTBF numbers for disks. I was a firm believer in Seagate Barracuda disk until I had a whole number of