From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jun 26 13:41:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26449 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neuron.hippocampus.net (neuron.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26336 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@hippocampus.net) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by neuron.hippocampus.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA22532; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:40:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:40:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas To: "Christopher G. Petrilli" cc: Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote: > I think you miss the statement IDE... this is a "black box" that to all > parties looks just like a IDE drive would, and the OS is totally unaware > of the fact that it's actually flash... no support needed. Correct. And writing a flash filesystem with wear levelling etc. is a duplicate of other peoples efforts. So either grab a motherboard with DiskOnChip support or use a flash drive with an IDE or SCSI interface. -marc -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions" vox://416.979.9000 fax://416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message