On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:29:41 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>I have my old IBM ValuePoint 486 that has a bios that really only likes
>drives under 512 MB. It has worked with one 8 GB drive, but not another
>seemingly identical WD 8 GB drive, yet alone a new-off-the-shelf 80 GB
>PATA drive. The I
On 2008-03-29, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have my old IBM ValuePoint 486 that has a bios that really only likes
> drives under 512 MB. It has worked with one 8 GB drive, but not another
> seemingly identical WD 8 GB drive, yet alone a new-off-the-shelf 80 GB
> PATA drive. T
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:21:55PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:51:33 +0100, chefren wrote:
> >On 3/28/08 1:20 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote:
> >
> >> The CF wearout meme needs to die.
> >
> >Specs, it's all about specs, it seems a fact to me that "standard" CF
> >cards, as used
chefren wrote:
> On 3/28/08 1:20 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote:
>
>> The CF wearout meme needs to die.
>
> Specs, it's all about specs, it seems a fact to me that "standard" CF
> cards, as used in camera's, often without any technical specification
> other than "size", cannot be written as often as o
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:51:33 +0100, chefren wrote:
>On 3/28/08 1:20 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote:
>
>> The CF wearout meme needs to die.
>
>Specs, it's all about specs, it seems a fact to me that "standard" CF
>cards, as used in camera's, often without any technical specification
>other than "size",
On 3/28/08 1:20 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote:
The CF wearout meme needs to die.
Specs, it's all about specs, it seems a fact to me that "standard" CF
cards, as used in camera's, often without any technical specification
other than "size", cannot be written as often as ordinary harddisks.
The fo
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:09:37 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
>I don't know if this makes a lot of sense or any, but I was thinking that
>flash memory doesn't like too many writes. So I was thinking of creating
>one or two RAMdisks, for all those temporary reads and writes that I need,
>and only store the
Speaking of RAMdisks, have you checked out Gigabyte i-RAM? Might be
the right stuff for your need.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 18:09:37 Mar 27, Uwe Dippel wrote:
[snip]
> -Girish
On 18:09:37 Mar 27, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> I don't know if this makes a lot of sense or any, but I was thinking that
> flash memory doesn't like too many writes. So I was thinking of creating
> one or two RAMdisks, for all those temporary reads and writes that I need,
> and only store the final result
I don't know if this makes a lot of sense or any, but I was thinking that
flash memory doesn't like too many writes. So I was thinking of creating
one or two RAMdisks, for all those temporary reads and writes that I need,
and only store the final result on the flash.
The whole system will run from
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