Re: [SLE] New File System On a Flash Disk? a DOC ?

From: Hans Witvliet (hwit_at_a-domani.nl)
Date: 03/18/05

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:37:19 +0100

    Hi all,

    On Friday 18 March 2005 04:18, B. Stia wrote:
    > On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:39, Ken Schneider wrote:
    > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:49 -0500, B. Stia wrote:
    > > > On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:16, Randall R Schulz wrote:
    > > > As a aside to this question, (excuse my ignorance) Can this be made
    > > > bootable and a small OS be put on it? For a permanent kind of
    > > > thing in a mobile installation. (GPS in an aircraft) Right now I
    > > > am using a 1.6 gig regular hard drive. If not, how about a DOC
    > > > that can be booted and then passed to the flash drive?
    > > >
    > > > Bob S.
    > >
    > > Yes, as long as your system supports booting from USB devices.
    >
    > Ken, & Chad
    >
    > Read someplace (which I can't find now) that the DOC is seen and
    > interpreted as an IDE device. Requires a change in the bios to
    > recognize it. Problem is that most affordable DOC's are pretty small
    > (You can get them up to a gig but they cost $ 1000's) and the small
    > one's would only hold a small boot partition.
    >
    > Now, if you could then partition the USB for the rest of the OS and
    > application files you would have something. Maybe I am all wet here
    > and on the wrong track, but when I saw Randall's post about the 1 Gig
    > flash device it got me thinking.
    >
    > Anyway, Bob S.

    Excuse me, if i'm perhaps off-topic, but how-about flash-ide adapters, like currently on ebay (about 3 USD):
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=167&item=5175353997&rd=1
    ( or new: http://adis.ca/cfdisk.php )

    AFAIK, even the bios thinks it's an IDE-device. no drivers needed. And compact-flash are upto 2GB.
    Not overwhelming large compared with regular drives, but a compact system should fit on it.

    Hans 

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