Actually, at my former job, I had the DOM flash and was playing around with loading the flash software on my new CF reader. It worked very easily. In the next two weeks, I rebooted the Gnat and the DOM died. As far as I know, they are still running on the CF card and reader. The whole thing cost them about $40. The old DOM were junk and GTA never replaced mine that failed. It died in less than a year, but with the 30 day warranty, unless you buy maint, you are screwed. I keep kicking my self for buying a GB1000, when I should have gotten the new flash.
Paul Paul R. Johnson Senior Network Analyst Johnson Industries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Joe Matuscak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 3:26 PM To: Gnatbox Subject: RE: [gb-users] VPN Routing (Centralization) On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Cox, Danny H. wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong... > > The PRO is not tied to any hardware, unlike the flash. I believe the current GBflash units use a compact flash adapter and off the shelf CF card. I think the adapter is passive, and CF cards can probably be found at Walmart etc. > If the PRO dies, you go to your local PC vendor (or your junk parts bin) > get the parts you need and you are back up and running. > > No need for spare, proprietary hardware, again unlike the flash. If the > flash fries, you are dead in the water. I know of this actually > happening. The older GBflashes used a dedicated flash module, which was not, in fact, GTA proprietary. They didnt advertise the fact, but you could get an off the shelf DOM from an industrial supplier and with a bit of work, make yourself a spare flash module. We built our GBflash systems from components and have a complete spare system, with another flash module, sitting on the shelf ready to go. All that being said, im not sure that in the grand scheme of things that GTA wouldnt be better off just selling a CD that installed on a run of the mill IDE drive. I know there was alot of discussion about not wanting to use a nasty "unreliable" disk drive, but I have also heard of the DOM modules dying. Using a regular hard drive would open up lots of possibilities as far as stuff like intrusion detection packages, antivirus, etc. without worrying about wether it will fit or not. Joe Matuscak Rohrer Corporation 717 Seville Road Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 (330)335-1541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
