Subj : a desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Jul 23 2017 03:27:42

Hey Nicholas!

 NB> Sounds like a plan!

It does indeed.  As we speak the raspi3 is chewing on the stage2 binutils (gcc 
is next) so it will be awhile.  I believe nano is a good fit for this idea.

 NB> it seems the external Seagate drive I had connected to it now has
 NB> some errors

That happened to me on an eeepc with a 2.5" drive connected to usb.  The eeepc 
was one of the originals with a 32 bit pentium-m that was *supposed* to clock 
at 900Mhz and 600MHz but was stuck at 600MHz due to bios issues.  Same with 
usb2 although flash drives worked okay but were WAY more expensive, which they 
still are when compared to terrabyte spinney drives available.

For the raspi3 I am sticking to flash drives and am using a 8G usb Sandisk on 
there for source as we speak.  So far it has worked out but I am thinking a 32G 
one might be better for use as building space to save on write cycles on the 
onboard microSD thingy.  I am going to need another one for booting up the 
stage2 toolchain that is currently building.  I already successfully booted a 
cross compiled arm64 linux kernel that I built on this machine but I lacked a 
proper aarch64 native enviroment and just used a stock slackwarearm-current 
build.

Bottomline is for the media server you probably would be better off hot 
swapping usb flash disks instead.  That is probably the safest.

Life is good,
Maurice

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