Yeah. The 500 MHz subsystem in particular is pure black magic. After swapping the 500MHz boards (the one that came in mine definitely has bad sockets for the two tubes), I finally found the right combo of tubes and adjustments to finally get the 500MHz marker to come in. I had to tweak the geometry of L69 relative to L70 (the giant wishbone) to get it to finally work.
Now, as far as I can tell, all markers are working!
Now THAT's what I'm talking about! A (hu)man made it; a (hu)man can fix it.
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(Even if there's voodoo involved
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SO = significant other.
Papa Smurf, should you not be sleeping ?
Day off. Coughing, presumably allergy or cold. The buyer for my Indiana Jones pinball cancelled about an hour before pickup.
Trying to fix a RockPi that has lost its microsd slot when it fell off the table (slot torn off of board). Trying to find a replacement did not work, the Molex stuff does not fit.
4 options: - buy the eMMC ramdisk and use spi flashing to enable booting off that critter, use PXE boot after rigging it
- jimmyrig a microSD card by attaching 0.05 mm wire to the traces and then try to boot and move the OS to an eMMC disk
- do the over the Top SATA M.2 thing (this gizmo has an M.2 slot). Don't know if it will boot though
- toss the critter (it's a 100€ board)
What would you think ?
I'd continue poking around my junk pile for a closer match to the
existing missing μSD socket. Epoxy it to the board, run my little wires, go have some TEA.
"Pretty is as pretty does." Nobody's gonna care about that bodge 10 years down the road, least of all YOU.
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I do find it hard to believe that if they bothered to put a m.2 slot in there it wouldn't boot from it tho...
mnem
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