From: pkhoury_at_juno.com
Date: Thu Sep 04 1997 - 02:06:35 EDT
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 22:56:12 -0700 phr_at_netcom.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
> Flash cards work real well, but their expensive! I got my 5MB
>card
> (mine is a genuine IBM, like 50% of my hardware!), and it
>installed
> easily for OS/2, and DOS when I had it in my machine. I paid
>about
> 90 bucks for it from a surplus place, but the retail places
>should be
> lowering to that range about now.
>
>Thanks. I got a couple of IBM 10 MB cards for $150 each last year,
>but you can get them for around $100 now surplus. IBM cards are
>actually made by Sandisk. Larger cards seem to be around $12.50/MB.
>I've had the idea of doing a Linux installation using a 20 MB ramdisk
>to hold system files (so they can vanish at shutdown and be restored
>from HD at reboot) and a 10 MB flash card for user files. But
>that's only 30 MB of space, not much for Linux; and it requires
>hacking up the software in various ways to split the system across
>three file systems (flash, ram, and HD). So the easiest way is
>probably to just buy a large, expensive flash card. If my financial
>condition improves in the next year I'll seriously consider it.
>
So you must really hate noisy machines like the original XT or PC, huh?
Flash is nice, but I only store critical (or they used to be, at least)
files on
it, and I wish I had the more expensive option except that it's too
expensive.
Believe it or not, I like both noisy machines, and quiet machines, but
I have 1 original PC, a Linux server, and a 386 on 24-7 now. I think
with
the ThinkPad hard drives you can use software routines to power down
the spindle motor, besides always pressing Fn-F6, but I don't have a clue
how to do it. I probably need to learn assembly first. Call IBM Storage
Systems
Division for additional ?s.
Later,
Paul
Paul
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