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From: Al Snore <badpacket94501@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: FlashBSD :-)
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FYI, just for the record. Make sure you fdisk /mbr the
flash, otherwise formatted or not, it ain't gonna
work.

BTW, the guys at mesanet.com have a great product for
$17.

--- Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:39:40AM +0800, Eugene
> Grosbein wrote:
> 
> > Does current hardware compatability list for
> FreeBSD contain
> > flash boards supported? Can't find them.
> 
> About two years ago per our local ISP request I did
> very customized
> configuration for PicoBSD. It was (and still)
> running P100 with
> some IDE flash. It was a simple flash card that
> inserted
> directly to IDE slot on motherboard and acted as
> HDD. I don't know hardware details
> (never worked with IDE flashes, except this case),
> but IIRC it was manufactured
> northen Ukraine. If you're interesting about details
> I'll try to find it.
> 
> > We are going to switch from floppy-based PicoBSD
> to flash-based
> > small installation but we are in Russia and not
> any device may be easily
> > available here. So I look for more or less
> complete list.
> > 
> > Eugene Grosbein
>  
> 
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