From owner-freebsd-small Wed Oct 7 11:50:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22114 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:50:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dworkin.amber.org (dworkin.amber.org [209.31.146.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22077 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:50:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petrilli@dworkin.amber.org) Received: (from petrilli@localhost) by dworkin.amber.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA19921; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19981007145000.13227@amber.org> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:50:00 -0400 From: "Christopher G. Petrilli" To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New microdrives from IBM Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19981007100029.30754@amber.org> <199810071844.LAA24566@freebie.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199810071844.LAA24566@freebie.dcfinc.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 11:44:48AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > 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 -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message