[raspberry-vi] Re: Samsung/Hynix/Samsung Confusion

  • From: erik burggraaf <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:26:43 -0500

Hi Mike congrads and nice to see you getting the odd reward for all the work 
you're putting in.
I'd offer to transcribe those books for you since I have all kinds of document 
cameras here but I'm in Canada and the postage might be a bit high.

Best,

Erik Burggraaf
Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194
or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com

On 2014-01-16, at 1:49 PM, Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> I'm going to make you slightly jealous now...
> 
> Today I got a prize in a Raspberry Pi competition I entered online. It 
> was run by wordery.com and the way to enter was to just answer three 
> very easy questions about the Pi, the answers to which were on 
> Wikipaedia anyway.
> 
> The prize was a Pi and two books about Pi.
> 
> Anyway...the Pi I got refuses to boot with Arch Linux dated July last 
> year, with which Phil's alleged Hynix Pi I have DOES boot. However it 
> boots OK with the Arch image from the Foundation downloads page dated 
> January this year.
> 
> Furthermore, Greg from this list did tell me he thought there might be a 
> way to identify a Samsun Pi from a Hynix Pi by feeling the bar between 
> the two USB ports.  He seemed to think the Hynix boards do not have two 
> little lumps there which are present on Samsung boards.
> 
> But...Phil's Pi has these lumps, as do my other two Pi boards, a rev 2 
> Model B and a 256MB rev 1 Pi, while the new Pi does not.
> 
> Today I got somebody sighted to look at my new Pi to see if he could see 
> anything written on any of the chips.  Nothing.  Or certainly nothing as 
> positive as 'Samsung', 'Hynix' or even 'Broadcom'.
> 
> So total confusion now reigns.
> 
> The net result of this is that I now have three Model B Rev 2 boards 
> which all display different behaviours, and one 256MB Pi.  So I at least 
> have a good stable of diverse boards on which to test my image.
> 
> I also have two books I can't see and which no doubt have lots of 
> diagrams in them :(
> 
> Mike
> 
> -- 
> Michael A. Ray
> Analyst/Programmer
> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
> 
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