From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 05:00:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34EF16A4BF for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 05:00:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from users.757.org (users.757.org [216.54.62.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A9C43FEC for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 05:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from telmnstr@757.org) Received: from users.757.org (telmnstr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by users.757.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h87C238N088108 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:02:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from telmnstr@757.org) Received: from localhost (telmnstr@localhost) by users.757.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id h87C23vo088105 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:02:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: users.757.org: telmnstr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:02:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Ethan Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030907041549.2d583981.dmp@bitfreak.org> Message-ID: <20030907075739.X88072-100000@users.757.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: new freebsd slogan!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 12:00:52 -0000 > access via serial terminal. After two years, the disk failed, quite > literally grinding to a halt. The disk was replaced, the RAM upgraded > to 64MB, and 4.3-R installed with the same configuration. To date, I don't know if your interested, but if you check ebay and other sources there are adaptors that fit compact flash cards on the IDE bus. Compact flash cards / pcmcia is basically IDE to begin with. They work well. Unfortunately one of my biggest projects using them is causing me much grief. I'm trying to get gphoto2 to run on FreeBSD, but it doesn't seem to work (the rc3 version that supports ptp digital cameras via USB). It works fine in Linux. I'm using 5.0 so I'm going to drop back to 4.8 and retest. Once it is done and working in FreeBSD I hope to try to scale it so it all fits on a 64mb compact flash card. Just don't write log files or anything to the flash, as it can wear out pretty quickly if it is constantly rewritten. We paid $200 for 22 3.5" floppy bay compact flash to IDE adaptors. Using most of them for point of sale applications where the machines were booting from floppy, but are now booting from a 4mb flash card. I will be demoing a linux system using a 256mb one to play 200mb worth of mpeg1 on an optibase card soon (No optibase videoplex drivers for freebsd :-( ). The freebsd flash based systems will be digital camera controllers. They are SBC pentium 150s. -- Ethan