- Compact Flash as IDE HDD
- Posted by W.Wallace on January 28th, 2004
Hy to all,
I need to mount on an industrial PC a compact flash as an IDE Hard
Disk Drive, so I have to boot from it (because there is no Hard disk).
Can you please suggest me the CF and CF Card Type and the OS for this
purpose ?
Thanks to all in advance.
- Posted by Alien Zord on January 28th, 2004
"W.Wallace" <williamwallace9193@email.it> wrote in message
news:c7d0d8f5.0401280107.75140137@posting.google.c om...
problems. One is the capacity and the other lifetime. You can install Win98
onto 512MB CF and Win2k onto 1GB. What is really required is embedded OS.
However, Windows embedded requires hefty initial investment as the
development system is several thousand USD, but, there are now several
embedded Linux distros that I would like to try.
The lifetime problem stems from limited number of erase cycles that flash
RAM will tolerate. Currently its around 100k but a swap file can get written
to 100 to 1000 times a day so the life would be less than a year. A modified
embedded OS can be configured not to require swap file so that's really the
way to go.
- Posted by ~misfit~ on January 28th, 2004
Alien Zord wrote:
A normal Windows OS can also be configured to not use a swapfile, as long as
you have enough RAM for the required usage.
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~misfit~
- Posted by dummy@whitehous.gov on February 20th, 2004
On 28 Jan 2004 01:07:05 -0800, williamwallace9193@email.it (W.Wallace)
wrote:
Try this website for some information. They make these flash adapters
that plug directly into the IDE port and act as a regular IDE Hard
Drive.
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/ituner/emstcfl.html
