On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:13:59AM -0700, Dan Farrell wrote: > Flash gets a bad rap. I think most people have heard of supposed > horror stories or they see the cycle limit and get wary. > > But I'm wondering... has anyone in this list actually had a personal > flash horror story? I don't have one of my own, and I'm swimming in > network devices (some quite old) that use them.
I've seen dozens of old RE-2.0s with CFs that have died over time, but I'm 99% certain there was no effort made to do wear leveling or bad block detection and avoidance on those things. :) The ironiy is that they were really put in as "backup" because nobody trusted spinning media in a router, go figure. -- Richard A Steenbergen <r...@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp