Considering SAM440 - a few Q's...

[lsmart]

I bought a pre-build SamFlex with (overclocked) 800MHz. As far as I understand the chips are designed to work fanless under rather rough conditions, so overclocking them when you ad a fan to the box should be no problem. (I am a software guy - my oppinion on HW is hearsay.)

My box runs quite stable, although - well, let´s say Gurus/Reapers still are part of the user experience. Also my USB-Stack/driver seems to be easily disturbed, but USB is bitchy sometimes even on a mac, so I guess I can cope with it.

[lsmart]

i guess you can connect a 1.44 floppy via USB ?

I tried this once and it didn´t work. ... Wait ... let´s try again:

connecting drive - done (it´s an IBM  USB Portable Diskette Drive)
pulling out an old dos disk that is known to be working - done (720k DD)
inserting - done (drive spins and blinks led)
look on desktop - no icon for the drive

USB drives usually present an Icon if they are FAT-formatted, so I guess it isn´t working.