From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 21 10: 6:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104D937BF16 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA61403; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:05:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Brian Handy , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware in space? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:18:18 EDT." Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:05:46 +0200 Message-ID: <61401.961607146@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> I'm a little concerned >> about saving the data -- I won't have enough telemetry during the flight >> to download all the data (all told, around 500 MBytes). So that will need >> to be stored somehow; some sort of non-volatile memory would be nice. Look at the "DiskOnChip" devices from M-systems, they're a Flash based, solid-state, supported by FreeBSD and very rugged. Many "embedded-market" motherboards have sockets for DOC devices already on them. www.m-sys.com -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message