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
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Puppy Linux is tweaked for minimum use of the HD, it loads everything
in RAM so it's very kind to ones Flash memory or CD. It would make an
interesting vehicle for Linux software for the SDR-1000 since it runs
great as a Live CD and is very kind to older PC's.
I use it for emergency recovery or
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 ot
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
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
;
> 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
>
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
> To: Flex Radio
> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio
>
> Are you running the SDR-1000 software on a company computer? Bad boy!
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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 in
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 sl
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
Are you running the SDR-1000 software on a company computer? Bad boy!
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.
It's only good for your PC or similarly configured units since
windows drivers are spe
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
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
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 yo
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 memo
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