Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:46:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Marc Nicholas <marc@hippocampus.net> Cc: Peter Wallace <pcw@mesanet.com>, "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@dworkin.amber.org>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. Message-ID: <199806271746.KAA15366@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:55:22 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980626195452.23779A-100000@neuron.hippocampus.net>
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> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Peter Wallace wrote: > > > > I think you miss the statement IDE... this is a "black box" that to all > > > parties looks just like a IDE drive would, and the OS is totally unaware > > > of the fact that it's actually flash... no support needed. > > Just dont swap to it :-) > > Heh...damn right! I get paranoid just *writing* a file to mine...they're > only good for about a million writes per cell. Only if you buy the cheap ones. 8) Actually, the best design I've seen so far uses a battery-backed SRAM for initial storage, and then does a sweep every 10 minutes updating changed pages into flash. When the power is off at the end of the sweep, the battery gets disconnected, and then on power-up the SRAM is repopulated. More complex, sure, but for some applications... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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