From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 13 10:33:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B839A14F0C; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:33:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA44836; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:09:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA22848; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:09:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001131809.LAA22848@harmony.village.org> To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels (flash cards off topic) Cc: Marcin Cieslak , "Forrest W. Christian" , Mike Smith , Geff Hanoian , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:50:45 MST." <387E1075.6ADE62A5@softweyr.com> References: <387E1075.6ADE62A5@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:09:36 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <387E1075.6ADE62A5@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: : Modern flash chips support on the order of 1,000,000 write cycles, so this : is not such a concern anymore. There is no reason why we shouldn't put : a filesystem on a flash card. We weren't talking about modern flash cards :-). These flash cards have 10,000 to 100,000 write cycles per page. : A better choice might be the flash disk cards from SanDisk and others, : since they do have an ATA interface and look like a small ATA drive : to the pccard code. Unless the linear flash cards are a LOT less : expensive, there isn't a lot of reason to do all the extra work. That's why I've done support for the ata flash cards, but haven't yet done the linear flash cards. :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message