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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:50:00 -0400
From:      "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@amber.org>
To:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New microdrives from IBM
Message-ID:  <19981007145000.13227@amber.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810071844.LAA24566@freebie.dcfinc.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 11:44:48AM -0700
References:  <19981007100029.30754@amber.org> <199810071844.LAA24566@freebie.dcfinc.com>

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On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 11:44:48AM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> > 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 <wink>
> 
> 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.

I know, but this is quite different than a lot of embedded applications.
We'll see anyway, flash is here to stay for the forseeable future,
especially since most people don't need 340MB :-) 

Chris
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