From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 29 11:34:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA5737C060 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:33:24 -0700 (PDT) (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 MAA86886; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:33:13 -0600 (MDT) (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 MAA35186; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:33:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006291833.MAA35186@harmony.village.org> To: "Peter C. Wallace" Subject: Re: oversized floppies for picobsd? Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:18:51 PDT." References: Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:33:07 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Peter C. Wallace" writes: : I agree, we use 'embedded' CF (a CF controller chip and memory on : the on CPU card itself) on some of our CPUs. Since they look like just an : IDE drive, no special drivers are needed. Also CF is a mass market item so : there is lots of competition keeping the price low. Also, good CF using : NAND flash and ECC can support millions of writes, probably better than : the media life of a floppy... We've yet to wear out a CF (CompactFlash) memory card. We've broken two or three DOC2k chips, but I think that was the bad lot of them they got a while back rather than really wearing them out. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message