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Hi,My idea is, to make an embedded fileseerver and it should looks like:a Harddisk is connected to a microcontroller and the microcontroller isconnected to a LAN, on the microcontroller runs linux with an IDE-Interfacefor accessing the HDD and a LAN-Interface for the network. On themicrocontroller runs Samba for sharing and accessing the files on the HDDover the LAN.What do u think, would it possible to realize such a device, btw. i'm anelectronical technician from switzerland...what do i need? where should i begin?Thanks for suggestions! :)-- roN

Kurt Harders · Accepted Answer

Hi Ron,"Ron Eggler"  schrieb innews: Why not just take a 250,00 Euro PC in a small case and build what you decribe?Regards, Kurt-- PiN - Präsenz im Netz GITmbHKurt Harders

Ron Eggler · Answer

'cause i'm interested to do something like this on my own...To discover embbeded Linux in Microcontrollers...:)-- roN

Michael Schnell · Answer

A PC processor _is_ a  Microcontroller. What exactly is your goal ? -Michael

Ron Eggler · Answer

yes but it needs alot of peripherial devices...-- roN

Grant Edwards · Answer

Not by any commonly accepted usage of the word. a uController is generally expected to included enough perhipherals and memory that it can perform a useful task w/o requiring any external parts (or a bare minimum of one or two maybe). A uController is expected to contain things like:

timer/counters RAM and/or ROM parallel I/O pins serial I/O pins interrupt controller chip-select generator and, on higher-end parts:

Ethernet controller DRAM controller LCD controller USB controller etc.

Ron Eggler · Answer

yes, that's exactly what i meant.thx! :)-- roN

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