On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Lister wrote: > Do the problems apply to solid state IDE? e.g. > <http://www.web-tronics.com/webtronics/ideflasdison.html>. It's not > clear to me whether the problems are due to the spin-up time of the > hardware or other IDE initialisation details.
we don't know. Interestingly enough there are no problems at all with delay on CDROM. > One advantage of IDE over DoC is that it's trivial to initialise on > any hardware. I probably wouldn't want to change the kernel and > minimal root that often, but I might want to update other software > frequently. So one might have a kernel+root in a DoC, and then an > application on an IDE drive. Yes this is an interesting idea. The big problem is that per Mbyte IDE flash is still pretty expensive. you can flash your flash on the card you got and use flash for linuxbios now. But an ASUS mainboard will have the usual asus differences, and I don't know if we have linuxbios on that or not. ron
