Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:53:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Marc Nicholas <marc@hippocampus.net> Cc: "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@dworkin.amber.org>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980626225007.25377K-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980626163827.22087N-100000@neuron.hippocampus.net>
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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Marc Nicholas wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Christopher G. Petrilli 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.
>
> Correct.
>
> And writing a flash filesystem with wear levelling etc. is a duplicate of
> other peoples efforts.
>
> So either grab a motherboard with DiskOnChip support or use a flash drive
> with an IDE or SCSI interface.
yeah, I was wrong - but the reality is that I was sent a PC-FD-16
flashdisk, which is an ISA card (I presume it's cheaper than the "true
IDE" version), and I can't change this fac. :-)
Besides, this will be more beneficial, because we'll finally start to use
3.0-current abilities to call real-mode BIOS.
Andrzej Bialecki
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