On 15 May 2012 13:45, Mans Rullgard <mans.rullg...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 15 May 2012 13:05, Ramana Radhakrishnan
> <ramana.radhakrish...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 15 May 2012 12:54, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> Basically a gadget that allows you to use one sd card shared by two 
>>> computers.
>>>
>>> Power off computer A and computer B will see the sdcard. Power on
>>> computer A and sd card will get unplugged from computer B; computer A
>>> can use it exclusively until it gets powered off again.
>>
>> (Assuming that computer B is powered off at the same time that
>> Computer A comes on) Interesting though I'm not sure where I'd use it
>> and how it would work if I had a running computer B and it was using
>> that device :)
>
> No, computer B can remain powered on all the time.  Imagine computer A being
> a Pandaboard with power controlled by computer B, a PC.  Now the PC can
> power off the Pandaboard, write an image to the card, and power on the Panda
> again.  This allows fully automatic recovery from a bad boot loader/kernel.

Ah thanks - that makes a lot more sense now.

Ramana
>
> --
> Mans Rullgard / mru

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