Have done some more reading up. Am looking at Read-Only physical (not thro' fstab) media implementation of bering with no moving parts. Though Bering provides this with floppies, as a medium floppies are unreliable and have a serious limitation on capacity. If we can get a similar solution with 64MB under $100 to add on to a regular PC, I think it is a great boon. We had discussed the compact flash and smartmedia. I went thro' the Sandisk site. They also talk of multimedia cards of capacities of 64MB, memory sticks etc (apart from Smartdisk that I had posted about earlier).
Can someone draw up a comparison between cf/sm and mmc with cost considerations so that users know what options are available - maybe even post it to the FAQ. I do not know the merits and demerits of mmc nor have enough info on the technology, its longetivity, acceptance, media availability etc. I guess between CF and SM, SM presents greater flexibility as it can be made read only using a physical tab while CF cannot be. Am I right? This limitation can be overcome using Flashpath kind of device if it has a write-protect tab like a regular floppy. Does anyone have this info? Not able to make out from the site. I'm enamoured with the Flashpath as I could use any standard machine to create a bering deployment SM. It would also give the flexibility of building identical machines and provide redundancy using removable media without any special hardware like CF readers etc. My earlier posts were debated by Craig, Cass Tolken, Brad Fritz, Kim Oppalfens, Larry Platzek, Ray Olszewski, Jack Coates, Mike Noyes, Paul Brooks. Can I have views and inputs please? Mohan ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
