Thread: N900 Specifications
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2009-09-21 , 15:15
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So now that this feature is not available what are the proposed alternatives for use cases? TransferJet?

Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
Folks, please, once and for all, let the system worry about flash wear, it's more than capable of doing it, don't burden yourself with it.

As for swap usage, it will definitively be used, Linux likes to keep memory empty for cache and buffers, so if you have something that isn't too active, it will end up on the swap sooner or later.
Why doesn't Nokia use a FS which is specifically designed to run on flash like UBIFS or LogFS?

Originally Posted by quingu View Post
WHAT?

Does that mean it's impossible to use any USB periphery with the n900 - not even with power injection?

All previous NITs had this feature. USB support missing on the n900 would be a huge letdown.
N900 has USB support. You mean USB host mode.

Maybe a USB powered hub with USB host mode could solve this? 2 in 1.

Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Ah so the reason why it wouldn't support USB host mode is because you can now charge the n900 over USB..
I can charge my Iriver H340 over USB, and I can also use USB host mode on it, but I never used USB host mode, and the device has 2 USB. (Since Iriver H340 doesn't have 3G I couldn't use it with my digicam to upload pictures.)

It is possible to configure both features in software using the stock (!) firmware (don't know about Rockbox).

In theory, one could put a bigger 2"5 HDD in the H340 (stock is 2"5 40 GB, PATA) and use USB host mode to export this to the N900?

Or, is it then, that one would need to use the H340 because that is the device with USB host mode? In that case, a dumb device with a web interface (and preferably SSH) and USB host mode could function as a bridge.
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