Wow. A great big thank you to the project team. Amazing piece of hardware. Brilliant.
Questions arising:
Very odd behaviour when the Bone eventually showed up as a USB drive. Attached to a Windows 7x64 host the device is erratic, with Windows often complaining that the file system needs repair. It is also oddly inconsistent in terms of write speeds*
I would generally put this down to a bad SD card - has anyone got any other ideas? Telnet session reports Angstrom V2012.01 with Kernel 3.2.5+.
A previous posting to the group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/SoBKsMARktA <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/SoBKsMARktA>) indicates the largest supported SD card is 8GB. Is this still the case?
Many thanks
Jerry
*Some numbers from a purpose-built test application below (W1 is write cycle, R1 is the read back of copied files):
CopyTest version 2007 run at 2012-05-25 20:50:58
Found 112 files to write to/read from f:/
W1: 23,717,126.0 bytes in 22.9818 seconds (avg bytes/sec : 1,031,995.75)
R1: 23,717,126.0 bytes in 22.575 seconds (avg bytes/sec : 1,050,592.62)
CopyTest version 2007 run at 2012-05-25 23:02:15
Found 112 files to write to/read from f:/
W1: 23,717,126.0 bytes in 476.677 seconds (avg bytes/sec : 49,755.13)
R1: 23,717,126.0 bytes in 23.1698 seconds (avg bytes/sec : 1,023,621.40)
CopyTest version 2007 run at 2012-05-25 23:52:50
Found 112 files to write to/read from f:/
W1: 23,717,126.0 bytes in 114.692 seconds (avg bytes/sec : 206,789.45)
R1: 23,717,126.0 bytes in 22.9449 seconds (avg bytes/sec : 1,033,655.75)