From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jun 26 13:52:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28570 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28343 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA19827; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:53:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:53:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Marc Nicholas cc: "Christopher G. Petrilli" , 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, Marc Nicholas wrote: > 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. yeah, I was wrong - but the reality is that I was sent a PC-FD-16 flashdisk, which is an ISA card (I presume it's cheaper than the "true IDE" version), and I can't change this fac. :-) Besides, this will be more beneficial, because we'll finally start to use 3.0-current abilities to call real-mode BIOS. Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message