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Is it possible to attach a hard disk (hdd) to the gumstix board?
The USB port on any PXA255-based gumstix expansion board is a usb client port, not a usb host port. As such, an hdd cannot be hung off the usb port of any gumstix board.

With Linux 2.6.12 or later, a usb drive can be attached to a USB Host compact flash card (not sold by gumstix) installed in either a cfstix or netCF expansion board slot.