From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 29 13:15:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from dreamwvr.com (24.66.207.153.ab.wave.home.com [24.66.207.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C70337C0D4 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com) Received: from tyr.dreamwvr.com (unknown [192.168.26.101]) by dreamwvr.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B1AC33483; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:15:23 -0600 (MDT) From: dreamwvr To: Warner Losh , "Peter C. Wallace" Subject: Re: oversized floppies for picobsd? Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:38:48 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200006291833.MAA35186@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: <200006291833.MAA35186@harmony.village.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00062914395322.00531@tyr.dreamwvr.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, What CF hw manufacturers work seemlessly with BSD, and Linux and ideas? TIA dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com > 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