[Coco] coco x and now zipit

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 04 May 2013 07:52:39 lciotti1 at gmail.com did opine:

> XRoar will run on some portable hardware.
> 
> Speaking of portable hardware.  I have a Zipit , and put linux on it,
> but it seems only seems to run for a little while before it starts
> haveing errors accessing the sd card.  I thing it might be the card,
> but has anyone gotting a version of linux that only runs the CLI and
> will run X is I choose?

Linux has several "filesystems" available, with the default ext2-3-4 family 
being hard on SD cards with their frequent system maintenance writes, so 
you may have to get a new SD card.  The wear leveling built into the card 
can eventually use up its rewrite mechanism.

There are linux filesystems that do not wear out SD cards, and there are 
options you can set to stretch the life, so before you put another new card 
in it, do some reading, or join the linux-scsi mailing list and ask for 
advice there.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
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> Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 20:33:48
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] coco x
> 
> On 4/05/2013 12:31 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> > you know what you be really awesome ? A portable cocoFPGA :)
> 
> The FPGA on this device is larger than that on the DE1.
> 
> <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug/pace/hardware/pace-p3m-scale.jpg>
> 
> The only reason I didn't bother porting the Coco to this hardware is
> that the screen is actually 240x320...
> 
> FWIW we even had DOOM running on this!
> 
> Regards,


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