From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 22 7:24: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from roaming.cacheboy.net (gate.interxion.com [194.153.74.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A496737B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by roaming.cacheboy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8MENeO39835; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:23:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:23:37 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd To: Douglas Swarin Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kkemp@nwcr.net Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system Message-ID: <20000922162336.A18474@roaming.cacheboy.net> References: <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000921182405.A82919@staff.texas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000921182405.A82919@staff.texas.net>; from doug@staff.texas.net on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 06:24:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 21, 2000, Douglas Swarin wrote: > Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One > brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a > 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to 128MB or > so, which is just fine for a boot partition. Since flash drives have no > moving parts, mechanical failure is not an issue, and since the root > partition is not written to much, the flash will not wear out for a > long time (flash cells wear out after about 100,000 writes; the flash > drives do load balancing and stuff to ensure that the (many) cells in > the drive are written to evenly). The neater magic will come out later when the only thing that needs to be machine-boot-readable is /boot, and your / can be vinum. Then all you need to have "hotswap" is your kernel+loader, which you could possibly get away even on a floppy disk. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." -- Random IRC quote To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message