On 07/11/2019 14:10, Kees Nuyt wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:16:29 +0000, Areligious Republican
 wrote:
>
>> Perhaps there is a need for a THUNK processor to
>> emulate the SD protocol on one side (to replace the
>> SD in Pi) and to drive a HD on the other.
>>
>> Job for an Arduino or a DSPic33?
>
> Much too complicated.
>
> As Chris Elvidge says in message:
>    Subject: Re: External disk with the pi 4, anyone
>    Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:10:14 +0000
>    Message-ID: 
> , it is much easier to use the SD card just for /boot,
> and put the rootfs on a harddisk
>
> My setup is usually :
>


The idea is to get away from SD cards altogether.

What you contributed subsequently was Linux jabber,
and not relevant to other approaches.

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