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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Matthew West wrote:

> If you're going to be using a system like the Soekris boards and your
> project requires a media that you can do a lot of writes too, I would
> recommend something like IBM's Microdrives.  You should be able to fit
> these inside the Soekris chassis without a problem.  The NET4801 has a
> Microdrive IDE connector on the board.


Someone also recommended to log to a separate machine.
Will check prices for microdrives to see what it would add to the cost,
but loggin to another machine may do the trick.