Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
Most PC's built in the last 5 years can boot from a USB memory stick, you can get 8GB for less than $80 if you look around. But I think it's most useful feature is that you can have an OS specially configured to be lean and mean for SDR use so you need not mess around with the built-in OS if you don't feel comfortable with changing it. On one particular PC my CPU usage went from over 50% usage to less than 10% usage after eliminating all the MS deadwood. At 09:58 AM 5/7/2007, you wrote: With Sandisk technology providing 1 GB plus storage for less than $100, has anyone considered loading the essentials of an OS and the 13 MB of PowerSDR onto memory chips and loose the slow and delicate disk drive. One would still need a PC to do the initial program loads to the non-volatile memory but, once done, size, power and durability benefits should abound. Add a miniature keyboard with track ball and a flat screen and it could be as small and portable as a laptop. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070507/85fba11c/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Cecil K5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
Whoa .. I am lost somewhere! I am not aware of a modern Microsoft OS that boots and runs from anything but a hard drive. I have seen Linux versions that will boot from a CD ROM but that's as close as I have seen it. PowerSDR does not yet run on Linux. Most computers that I am aware of purposely make it impossible to boot from a USB device for security reasons. Let a hacker loose in a corporate environment with a Sans Disk and havoc would wreak if they did that. It's a great idea and I am all for it but just have not seen any way to do it and you are quoting CPU usage figures. So the question becomes how do you do it? --Larry W8ER k5nwa wrote: Most PC's built in the last 5 years can boot from a USB memory stick, you can get 8GB for less than $80 if you look around. But I think it's most useful feature is that you can have an OS specially configured to be lean and mean for SDR use so you need not mess around with the built-in OS if you don't feel comfortable with changing it. On one particular PC my CPU usage went from over 50% usage to less than 10% usage after eliminating all the MS deadwood. At 09:58 AM 5/7/2007, you wrote: With Sandisk technology providing 1 GB plus storage for less than $100, has anyone considered loading the essentials of an OS and the 13 MB of PowerSDR onto memory chips and loose the slow and delicate disk drive. One would still need a PC to do the initial program loads to the non-volatile memory but, once done, size, power and durability benefits should abound. Add a miniature keyboard with track ball and a flat screen and it could be as small and portable as a laptop. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070507/85fba11c/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Cecil K5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
What are the transfer rates on a USB stick? I have the feeling they will not be very good. However, I did some testing last year using a Samsung 32 GB solid state hard drive and it blew away the SATA and ATA/100 drives on read transfer rates and was slightly better on write transfer rates. However the drive cost over $3000. I recently looked at some 6 GB solid state drives and they ran about $650. The beauty of the little 6 GB drives is that they plug directly into the IDE connector on the motherboard. So to Larry's question, the solid state drives look to the system like a 'normal' IDE drive. The solid state drives (at least the Samsung) are also rated for about 2,000,000 MTBF while a standard USB flash type device is usually around 10,000 MTBF. I wouldn't want to be running a Microsoft OS on a drive with that low of a MTBF rate. What may be interesting is a small Firewire drive (or 1st / 2nd gen ipod). They are very small and can easily be unplugged and taken with you. Dana N1OFZ On May 7, 2007, at 11:59 AM, k5nwa wrote: Most PC's built in the last 5 years can boot from a USB memory stick, you can get 8GB for less than $80 if you look around. But I think it's most useful feature is that you can have an OS specially configured to be lean and mean for SDR use so you need not mess around with the built-in OS if you don't feel comfortable with changing it. On one particular PC my CPU usage went from over 50% usage to less than 10% usage after eliminating all the MS deadwood. ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
At 09:23 AM 5/7/2007, Larry W8ER wrote: Whoa .. I am lost somewhere! I am not aware of a modern Microsoft OS that boots and runs from anything but a hard drive. I have seen Linux versions that will boot from a CD ROM but that's as close as I have seen it. PowerSDR does not yet run on Linux. I haven't seen a Windows boot from USB, but I can't think of why it wouldn't be possible. There are thin client versions of Windows, for instance, that boot over the network. Might be interesting to look at EmbeddedXP, which seems to be quite popular for test equipment these days. Most computers that I am aware of purposely make it impossible to boot from a USB device for security reasons. Let a hacker loose in a corporate environment with a Sans Disk and havoc would wreak if they did that. It's typically a BIOS function to enable/disable booting from USB. In a corporate environment, they would disable the function. Heck, in many corporate environments, they won't even allow writing to a USB storage device, so the data doesn't walk out the door. It's a great idea and I am all for it but just have not seen any way to do it and you are quoting CPU usage figures. So the question becomes how do you do it? James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875 ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
See reply below: N1OFZ wrote: What are the transfer rates on a USB stick? I have the feeling they will not be very good. However, I did some testing last year using a Samsung 32 GB solid state hard drive and it blew away the SATA and ATA/100 drives on read transfer rates and was slightly better on write transfer rates. However the drive cost over $3000. Nope Dana. A solid state disk drive that resides on an IDE interface looks just like an IDE drive to the system. It isn't even a close cousin to the USB stick drives that we are talking about! Then again neither is a USB hard drive (of which there are many). These device cannot be confused for the purpose of booting. As to data transfer rate, the IDE interface is much faster. A solid state device on a USB port is slow by comparison. Your testing with a solid state drive connected to an IDE interface should be very fast. I recently looked at some 6 GB solid state drives and they ran about $650. The beauty of the little 6 GB drives is that they plug directly into the IDE connector on the motherboard. So to Larry's question, the solid state drives look to the system like a 'normal' IDE drive. The solid state drives (at least the Samsung) are also rated for about 2,000,000 MTBF while a standard USB flash type device is usually around 10,000 MTBF. I wouldn't want to be running a Microsoft OS on a drive with that low of a MTBF rate. Same reply .. not the same as a USB device or Firewire device. Again there are security concerns and the industry has addressed them. This is why it's not able to be done, that is without something being circumvented. --Larry W8ER ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
What's wrong with running an SDR-1000 on a company computer? I do it all the time... ;) Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of k5nwa Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 1:02 PM To: Flex Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio Are you running the SDR-1000 software on a company computer? Bad boy! ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
I do think its possible. If you purchase 2 IDE adapters for flash cards, I believe you should be able to install windows on one and use the other for paging and powersdr. I am not saying I would want to do this, but I cannot see any limitations that would refuse it. My windows folder is 2GB and you can certainly buy bigger flash cards than that. I have had USB disks interfere with WinXP booting before so I know that at least some bios will look there for bootable media. I think if you turn off legacy USB support this will not happen but again, if you use IDE adapters (I paid 3 bucks for mine and it plugs directly into the IDE channel plug on the motherboard). Again, not sure why I would want to do this but I think its possible to do so. Neal Campbell K3NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet to our DX Spotting clusters at: dxc.k3nc.com, ports 12001 and 23 Devoted to Dogs: How to be your dog's best owner Great Dog Book at www.abrohamneal.com On May 7, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Larry W8ER wrote: See reply below: k5nwa wrote: Are you running the SDR-1000 software on a company computer? Bad boy! Silly question! No. If you plug in a USB stick then turn on the PC with a XP install disk in the CD ROM you have the option of installing XP on the USB stick. WRONG. It will not install any code into a boot sector. It will err out! Tried it .. been there .. done that. snip ...You can also install Linux in a USB stick. Check out Puppy Linux, it's specifically made to run on a CD or a USB stick and it runs really fast. and what version of PowerSDR do I run under Puppy Linux Cecil? I setup an alternative profile, and turned off everything under the sun that was not needed, I disabled all networking services, all anti-virus, firewall, help, updating, remote access, and any service not needed for use in running the SDR-1000. It went from 50% spiking to 70% to less than 10% with no spikes in utilization. Because it's a separate profile when I boot I have a choice of picking it or the normal profile. XP is also using less that 64MB of RAM while in that configuration. Cecil ... how do you set up such an alternative profile under XP without booting XP from a hard drive first? I thought the idea was to boot the OS and run PowerSDR from a USB memory stick? I contend that you cannot boot an operating system that will run PowerSDR from a USB memory stick. Am I wrong? --Larry W8ER ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070507/346ad120/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
My employeer has hundreds of PC's running on compact flash memory cards with no hard drives and no fans. A machine with no moving parts has many advantages in an enviroment that may be less then office clean and running 24/7. There machines use a compact flash adapter that plugs into the IDE bus and the flash card plugs into it. All machines are running Windows XP Professional. The power supplies and motherboards are all fanless. The life cycle ratings of the compact flash cards are much longer than the hard drives. From: Gerald Capodieci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007/05/07 Mon AM 09:58:32 EST To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio With Sandisk technology providing 1 GB plus storage for less than $100, has anyone considered loading the essentials of an OS and the 13 MB of PowerSDR onto memory chips and loose the slow and delicate disk drive. One would still need a PC to do the initial program loads to the non-volatile memory but, once done, size, power and durability benefits should abound. Add a miniature keyboard with track ball and a flat screen and it could be as small and portable as a laptop. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070507/85fba11c/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
Possible, but not practical. Flash has a limited lifetime on writes (10k to 100k, depending on the technology). Even if writes are load-levelled, paging on such a storage device would drastically shorten its lifetime over what you might expect. Most OS's allow paging to be disabled. This may or may not be acceptable for your use cases / applications. We had to go this way for Flash-based storage used in In-Flight Entertainment applications. Matt Zilmer WA6EGJ On Mon, 7 May 2007 17:06:44 -0400, you wrote: I do think its possible. If you purchase 2 IDE adapters for flash cards, I believe you should be able to install windows on one and use the other for paging and powersdr. I am not saying I would want to do this, but I cannot see any limitations that would refuse it. My windows folder is 2GB and you can certainly buy bigger flash cards than that. I have had USB disks interfere with WinXP booting before so I know that at least some bios will look there for bootable media. I think if you turn off legacy USB support this will not happen but again, if you use IDE adapters (I paid 3 bucks for mine and it plugs directly into the IDE channel plug on the motherboard). Again, not sure why I would want to do this but I think its possible to do so. Neal Campbell K3NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet to our DX Spotting clusters at: dxc.k3nc.com, ports 12001 and 23 Devoted to Dogs: How to be your dog's best owner Great Dog Book at www.abrohamneal.com On May 7, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Larry W8ER wrote: See reply below: k5nwa wrote: Are you running the SDR-1000 software on a company computer? Bad boy! Silly question! No. If you plug in a USB stick then turn on the PC with a XP install disk in the CD ROM you have the option of installing XP on the USB stick. WRONG. It will not install any code into a boot sector. It will err out! Tried it .. been there .. done that. snip ...You can also install Linux in a USB stick. Check out Puppy Linux, it's specifically made to run on a CD or a USB stick and it runs really fast. and what version of PowerSDR do I run under Puppy Linux Cecil? I setup an alternative profile, and turned off everything under the sun that was not needed, I disabled all networking services, all anti-virus, firewall, help, updating, remote access, and any service not needed for use in running the SDR-1000. It went from 50% spiking to 70% to less than 10% with no spikes in utilization. Because it's a separate profile when I boot I have a choice of picking it or the normal profile. XP is also using less that 64MB of RAM while in that configuration. Cecil ... how do you set up such an alternative profile under XP without booting XP from a hard drive first? I thought the idea was to boot the OS and run PowerSDR from a USB memory stick? I contend that you cannot boot an operating system that will run PowerSDR from a USB memory stick. Am I wrong? --Larry W8ER ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070507/346ad120/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
Neal .. I think the point is being missed. USB hard disks. Not flash cards on IDE adapters nor solid state drives on IDE interfaces etc. I can't imagine how they could block booting from any IDE device especially one that emulates an IDE hard drive! --Larry W8ER Neal Campbell K3NC wrote: I do think its possible. If you purchase 2 IDE adapters for flash cards, I believe you should be able to install windows on one and use the other for paging and powersdr. I am not saying I would want to do this, but I cannot see any limitations that would refuse it. My windows folder is 2GB and you can certainly buy bigger flash cards than that. I have had USB disks interfere with WinXP booting before so I know that at least some bios will look there for bootable media. I think if you turn off legacy USB support this will not happen but again, if you use IDE adapters (I paid 3 bucks for mine and it plugs directly into the IDE channel plug on the motherboard). Again, not sure why I would want to do this but I think its possible to do so. Neal Campbell K3NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet to our DX Spotting clusters at: dxc.k3nc.com, ports 12001 and 23 Devoted to Dogs: How to be your dog's best owner Great Dog Book at www.abrohamneal.com http://www.abrohamneal.com On May 7, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Larry W8ER wrote: See reply below: k5nwa wrote: Are you running the SDR-1000 software on a company computer? Bad boy! Silly question! No. If you plug in a USB stick then turn on the PC with a XP install disk in the CD ROM you have the option of installing XP on the USB stick. WRONG. It will not install any code into a boot sector. It will err out! Tried it .. been there .. done that. snip ...You can also install Linux in a USB stick. Check out Puppy Linux, it's specifically made to run on a CD or a USB stick and it runs really fast. and what version of PowerSDR do I run under Puppy Linux Cecil? I setup an alternative profile, and turned off everything under the sun that was not needed, I disabled all networking services, all anti-virus, firewall, help, updating, remote access, and any service not needed for use in running the SDR-1000. It went from 50% spiking to 70% to less than 10% with no spikes in utilization. Because it's a separate profile when I boot I have a choice of picking it or the normal profile. XP is also using less that 64MB of RAM while in that configuration. Cecil ... how do you set up such an alternative profile under XP without booting XP from a hard drive first? I thought the idea was to boot the OS and run PowerSDR from a USB memory stick? I contend that you cannot boot an operating system that will run PowerSDR from a USB memory stick. Am I wrong? --Larry W8ER ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz mailto:FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
RAM is cheap. Use a big RAMdisk and load it, or at least the OS elements that need to be on a R/W filesystem, from USB or Flash media at boot. With a couple of gigs of RAM not being unreasonable today, I'd think you could make this work using a stripped down version of Windows something or other. It's a very different application profile, but embedded systems do this under FreeBSD and Linux all the time, with much smaller RAM footprints (my Soekris net4501 NTP servers boot from a CF image and run with a RAMdisk of less than 32MB). John Larry W8ER wrote: Neal .. I think the point is being missed. USB hard disks. Not flash cards on IDE adapters nor solid state drives on IDE interfaces etc. I can't imagine how they could block booting from any IDE device especially one that emulates an IDE hard drive! --Larry W8ER Neal Campbell K3NC wrote: I do think its possible. If you purchase 2 IDE adapters for flash cards, I believe you should be able to install windows on one and use the other for paging and powersdr. I am not saying I would want to do this, but I cannot see any limitations that would refuse it. My windows folder is 2GB and you can certainly buy bigger flash cards than that. I have had USB disks interfere with WinXP booting before so I know that at least some bios will look there for bootable media. I think if you turn off legacy USB support this will not happen but again, if you use IDE adapters (I paid 3 bucks for mine and it plugs directly into the IDE channel plug on the motherboard). Again, not sure why I would want to do this but I think its possible to do so. Neal Campbell K3NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet to our DX Spotting clusters at: dxc.k3nc.com, ports 12001 and 23 Devoted to Dogs: How to be your dog's best owner Great Dog Book at www.abrohamneal.com http://www.abrohamneal.com On May 7, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Larry W8ER wrote: See reply below: k5nwa wrote: Are you running the SDR-1000 software on a company computer? Bad boy! Silly question! No. If you plug in a USB stick then turn on the PC with a XP install disk in the CD ROM you have the option of installing XP on the USB stick. WRONG. It will not install any code into a boot sector. It will err out! Tried it .. been there .. done that. snip ...You can also install Linux in a USB stick. Check out Puppy Linux, it's specifically made to run on a CD or a USB stick and it runs really fast. and what version of PowerSDR do I run under Puppy Linux Cecil? I setup an alternative profile, and turned off everything under the sun that was not needed, I disabled all networking services, all anti-virus, firewall, help, updating, remote access, and any service not needed for use in running the SDR-1000. It went from 50% spiking to 70% to less than 10% with no spikes in utilization. Because it's a separate profile when I boot I have a choice of picking it or the normal profile. XP is also using less that 64MB of RAM while in that configuration. Cecil ... how do you set up such an alternative profile under XP without booting XP from a hard drive first? I thought the idea was to boot the OS and run PowerSDR from a USB memory stick? I contend that you cannot boot an operating system that will run PowerSDR from a USB memory stick. Am I wrong? --Larry W8ER ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz mailto:FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
That is why I went with an SATA II RAID zero configuration. It made a big difference. RAID zero is not for redundancy but for striping, so it speeds things up. Marty KG6QKJ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
