<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 5, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Stuart Winter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Hi<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm just about to buy a 32gb compact flash card and ide adaptor for my<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">RiscPC so I can install armedslack and have a machine without a spinning<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hdd :-)<br></blockquote><br>Hmmm. I'll be interested to see if it works! Off the top of<br>my head, I'm not sure whether the RiscPC kernel would contain<br>support for such a device -- although if it's just IDE, it<br>most likely will work. Still, if you're looking for a noise-free machine,<br>I hope you remembered the 2ft long PSU ;-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>hehe.... You should have heard the noise the 1Gb HDD used to make, it was even louder the the PSU! </div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">What I'd really like to know is if anyone is using a RiscPC with dual<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">StrongArm's? Is the current ARMedslack kernel SMP aware? Will my RiscPC even<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">boot with two StrongArms in (not bought it yet but have easy access to one).<br></blockquote><br>The RiscPC doesn't support SMP -- the second slot is for<br>an x86 card -- for which there is no Linux support.<br>So unfortunately, it won't work -- I wish it would though, it'd be cool :)<br><br></blockquote></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I been doing some research and the RiscPC is SMP capable! I remember that there was a 'hydra' card available that allowed an additional four StrongArm's but obviously they were pretty much wasted under RiscOS. After a little bit of googling I've found out that any ARM chip (including StrongArm's) could be plugged into a Hydra but there was some additional </font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">arbitration logic on the actual hydra card which means I can't just pug an additional StrongArm into my machine.......I wonder what that additional logic was? </font></font></span></div><div><br></div></body></html>