Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:56:35 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom Message-ID: <20030105165407.Y96460@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030105134729.A43854@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> <20030105001014.GA76756@cs.huji.ac.il> <20030105.001255.53237870.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030105131030.X264@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030105122146.C43208@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030105142342.Y264@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030105134729.A43854@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: WB> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:27:58PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: WB> > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: WB> > WB> > WB> > Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how many WB> > WB> > _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least one major WB> > WB> > question: where to boot from? especially in the case of standalone WB> > WB> > moving-parts-free router ;-) WB> > WB> WB> > WB> You can boot from CompactFlash cards, they behave like IDE drives. WB> > WB> > Aha, that makes sense... But then, I suppose, one needs some IDE<->CF WB> > converting device... Would you point me to the resources 'bout them? WB> WB> http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fcfa.html WB> WB> is what I have. Just remember one thing: in IDE-mode the CF cards can WB> *not* be hotplugged! Yeah, thanks, just have found some at Google. Unfortunately, none of these devices seem to be easily available here in RU, but we'll try to workaround this ;-) Hotplug unavailability is not of great sense since in situation described CF would be the only ATAPI device in whole system. Thanks again for your help. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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