[Coco] 2gig CF card killed

[Joef6809]

Theres also a wear leveling algorithm employed to keep a given group of 
memory cells from burning out before all others.

>From Hell's heart I STore Accumulator B at thee!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] 2gig CF card killed


> At 10:24 AM 3/22/2008, you wrote:
>
>>The main reason to use CF in place of a hard drive is for embedded
>>systems, network appliances, or some other use where you want mass
>>storage that needs to be small, energy efficient, and/or resistant to
>>vibration.  Something like the aforementioned Linux distros will run
>>without swap, given enough RAM, or will make swap an option that the
>>user can switch on when necessary.  These OSes also use all sorts of
>>cool filesystem tricks so they can overlay changes to what would
>>ordinarily be a read-only medium on a RAMdisk, and then save the changes
>>to writable non-volatile storage on shutdown.
>
>
> Here's my situation: My Compaq IA-1 has Midori Linux installed in the 16mb 
> internal memory.  MSN Companion was erased in the process.  So, when no CF 
> card is plugged in, the IA-1 boots into Linux.  If a bootable CF card is 
> inserted, the IA tries to boot it.
>
> Do you think Fedora 8 would install to a 2gig CF?  I could trim a lot of 
> the fat from the DVD install, no problem.  What I want to do is run Fedora 
> on the IA-1 since Fedora 8 has the zd1211 driver built in and I can use my 
> Belkin USB Wireless G adaptor to access the network and web.  I'd like to 
> tell Fedora at some point to use the IA-1's internal 16mb for the swap, 
> which means this will have to be done after the CF card is moved over to 
> the IA-1 after Fedora was installed to it from another PC, but this is 
> from a semi-newbie view.
>
> If Fedora is too resource hungy, what other small build that can use 16mb 
> of memory is there that has the zd1211 driver already there?  Midori may 
> even have it but I wouldn't know because no commands at all work from the 
> command prompt box they put in there.  Even "dir" doesn't work.  Only "cd" 
> works as far as I have had time to notice.
>
> I just want my IA-1 system to run at least one kind of CoCo 3 emulator AND 
> browse the web using the Belkin USB wireless adaptor like how I do from 
> Fedora on another PC.  The IA-1 already can run the CoCo emulators if the 
> CF card is formatted to have MS-DOS on it, but I want to move beyond that 
> now.
>
> Windows 98SE is looking like it's going to lock up every time I get a good 
> ways into the install on the IA-1 when it's checking for Plug and Play 
> devices.  It can sit there for a whole day and never break the loop.  It 
> looks like Linux is my best bet.
>
>
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