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Re: [ts-7000] eSATA on the TS7800

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] eSATA on the TS7800
From: Richard Sharpe <>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 20:34:52 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Yan Seiner wrote:

> I just discovered that the Buffalo LinkStation has the same CPU as the
> 7800...  Since there seems to be lots of knowledge out there  - e.g
> <http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Buffalo_ARM9_Kernel_Port>
> I'm now trying to figure out how difficult it would be to run a MythTV
> backend off a 7800.
>
> The biggest issue is getting enough storage.  Does anyone know if it
> is feasible to get an eSATA port out of the FPGA?

I believe this to be impossible because the FPGA does not have any LVDS 
serial IO ports, and even if it did, building a SATA host-controller in it 
will be hard :-)

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

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