Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:05:46 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware in space? Message-ID: <61401.961607146@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:18:18 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006211313410.50107-100000@athena.lightningone.net>
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>> I'm a little concerned >> about saving the data -- I won't have enough telemetry during the flight >> to download all the data (all told, around 500 MBytes). So that will need >> to be stored somehow; some sort of non-volatile memory would be nice. Look at the "DiskOnChip" devices from M-systems, they're a Flash based, solid-state, supported by FreeBSD and very rugged. Many "embedded-market" motherboards have sockets for DOC devices already on them. www.m-sys.com -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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