At 01:29 ðì 13/1/2002 +0000, you wrote: >Phoebus R. Dokos writes: > > >I tried my CF adapter with my A7000 and it works > >like a dream :-)... Another extra ;-) Booted RISC > >OS 3.x like a charm and then copied my entire > >hard drive to a (on loan 1 Gb Microdrive)... then > >started the machine w/o the HDD... No problems > >:-) Actually since my A7000 has a 850 Meg (yuck. > >,... small ! :-) older IDE HD the CF "felt" a little faster > >than the hdd > >CF media have a limited life span. Is it feasible (safe and cheap) to use >them instead of hard disks in a typical QL setting?
It indeed has a "limited" life... however we do not have PCs that write on the disks every millisecond ;-) Theoretically also if you use an IBM Microdrive you are not really using a CF card since it is a disk really (very small but still a disk) Phoebus >Per
