Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > The linear flash cards don't have an ata interface,
> > so PAO and soon -current won't recognize them.
>
> They don't have and we don't need it.
> Once can easily read them with low-level pccardc interface.
> In general, flash cards are not meant to be written too often,
> so I belive we won't put a real filesystem on them.
> Just a kernel and mfsroot image perhaps?
Modern flash chips support on the order of 1,000,000 write cycles, so this
is not such a concern anymore. There is no reason why we shouldn't put
a filesystem on a flash card.
A better choice might be the flash disk cards from SanDisk and others,
since they do have an ATA interface and look like a small ATA drive
to the pccard code. Unless the linear flash cards are a LOT less
expensive, there isn't a lot of reason to do all the extra work.
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