[raspberry-vi] Re: Samsung/Hynix/Samsung Confusion
- From: Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:09:50 +0000
Hello Phil,
It's getting more confusing.
At least now I have cracked the latency issue we can boot from the
latest kernels and firmware.
You might as well hang on to the Samsung Pi you have and I'll hold on to
your Hynix. Makes no odds either way now. We can treat them as identical.
Mike
On 16/01/2014 21:08, Agent Orange wrote:
> I sent my previous message prematurely as I also wanted to include this link
> which again requires sighted assistance to use to it's full but which may
> help identify your board:
>
> http://elinux.org/RaspberryPi_Boards
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Ray
> Sent: 16 January 2014 18:49
> To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [raspberry-vi] Samsung/Hynix/Samsung Confusion
>
> 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
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> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
>
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Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
I KEEP six honest serving-men, They taught me all I know. Their names are What
and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
-- Rudyard Kipling (paraphrased)
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Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/
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