Mele A1000

[MFserver]

Does anyone know if this device is capable of having more than one drive connected to the SATA-port, for example if using an external eSATA HDD case with support for 5 drives and RAID5-ing the drives (which is exactly what I am planning), or is the limit of 1 TB drives for the SATA port still valid when using an external RAID drive? Does anyone have the means to test this or should I get one and post results when tested?

[WarheadsSE]

I have received my Mele A100, and am just beginning work.

[WarheadsSE]

I've got the A100 up and running, not a completely Arch system yet:
- reusing the Linaro hf kernel aimed at the MK802 here
- copying the board files from A1000 here

[vonfritz]

Hi
u-boot selfcompiled from : https://github.com/hno/uboot-allwinner/wiki or you can extract u-boot, script.bin, kernel ecc. from :
hwpack
kernel from https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner branch allwinner-v3.0-android-v2
rootfs from http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-omap-smp-latest.tar.gz works with some adjustments.

also works here

np

bye

[linuxguy]

Just FYI, based on what I've read about these units, the a1000 has the exact same hardware as the a2000. The only difference is in the case and the way the flash has been partitioned/formatted. The a1000 is supposed to also have 4mb, not 2mb. Its just that the way it was formatted, it was partitioned as 2mb/2mb, where by only 2mb is used. Do not, I'm parroting here. I expect to have my hardware sometime late next week.

[WarheadsSE]

It seems the A100/1000/2000 are all essentially identical, despite certain mechanical differences. We have a kernel up and running, and are working on packaging up the graphics bits. There is also a preliminary rootfs, not yet exposed.

[menos16]

Waiting the arch support for mele1000 like children wait Santa Claus,

Thanks to the development. if there is some thing that I could help you (testing or similar)... don't hesitate

[WarheadsSE]

I need to make a pretty SD card making script, but the rootfs I can throw together.

[hansarsch]

whats the status on this one?

[WarheadsSE]

I pretty much need to finish the install instructions, then continue work on the display drivers.

If you go to http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ you will see

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ArchLinuxARM-sun4i-latest.tar.gz                   04-Aug-2012 16:16           147890945
ArchLinuxARM-sun4i-latest.tar.gz.md5               04-Aug-2012 16:17                  74


And that is a working rootfs (kernel in /boot, needs copied to mmcblk0p1)