On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 01:40, dfox wrote: > Hmm. Any idea what the set-top boxes might use (tivo, dish network, mp3 > players etc.) ? One would seemingly want to have at least as good (if > not better) reliability because these drives can easily get more usage > (in terms of writes/rewrites) than the typical desktop or server > machine. For instance, the drives in embeeded tivo-type devices are > routinely re-recording a section of disk with new video as long as there > is power to the machine. This is at least true with dish network combo > digital video recorders/dish tuner boxes. > The other day I opened up a store bought system, and was bowled over to see an oem fujitsu drive inside. Very interesting. I don't like assembly line systems; the custom approach is much better. But this looked like at least one thing they did right inside that box.
I also ran into a couple of fujitsu 2.5" form factor drives in a proprietary kiosk a while back, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well they integrated into a desktop machine; no wierdisms with slave/master stuff like with some other laptop drives I've seen. But I've never seen the inside of a Tivo...would be interesting to hear about that! LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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