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Re: Seagate GoFlex Satellite



On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:41:15PM -0700, Braddock Gaskill wrote:
> 
> Is there much hope of getting Debian running on a Seagate GoFlex
> Satellite?  This is a very sexy little Linux-based device which encloses a
> 500GB harddrive with wifi and runs off a battery.

According to the following article, Seagate GoFlex runs using TI AM3703,
which should be supportable with with Debian armhf omap3 kernel -
assuming the right device drivers are added. 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4706/understanding-wireless-storage-kingston-widrive-and-seagate-goflex-satellite

I certainly see potential for wireless portable Debian server.

> What would be involved in getting Debian to run?  Where would I start?  Is
> anyone interested in working on this?

Getting the results of "dmesg" command and the kernel sources would be
the first step. After that, finding the serial port or JTAG port.

Riku


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