10. Continued

This told the Linkstation that I wanted to share the root directory of the box with anonymous ftp. Once I had done this, I could FTP into the box and roam around all of the operating system directory structure. This didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know about the box, but it was interesting to me nonetheless. The box was running on a PowerPC processor, and it was using a typical set of embedded Linux executables.

Figure 11 shows the main board of the Linkstation mini. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the main processor is a Texas Instruments DM320, which seems a bit hard to find information on, and Ethernet is provided by a SMSC 91c113. According to what I could find, among its other capabilities, the DM320 has an ARM CPU core running at 200 MHz with an embedded MPEG2 decoder.

Figure 11: LinkTheater mini Main Board with Power Supply
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