From owner-freebsd-small Wed Oct 7 11:46:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21192 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.5.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21140 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3a) id LAA24566; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:44:48 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199810071844.LAA24566@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: New microdrives from IBM To: petrilli@amber.org (Christopher G. Petrilli) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:44:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981007100029.30754@amber.org> from "Christopher G. Petrilli" at "Oct 7, 98 10:00:29 am" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:43:25PM -0700, Tony Li wrote: > > Unfortunately most embedded environments I've worked with, moving disks > aren't really acceptable as the G forces will kill them... try saking > your notebook around while it's runnning and slamming it against the > wall, etc :-) Please don't call me for warranty Well, they aren't shipping yet, so who really knows. But the initial target market is to replace flash memory cards in digital cameras. In other words, portable consumer products. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message