On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:50, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > > Hello from Gregg C Levine > > Steve? How so? How did you physically connect the CF card to your > > IDE bus? I > > know a number of adapters exist to enable that feature, and I > > know that the > > 2.4 series contains the MTD (Memory Technology Drivers) functions > > directly, > > but after that, I'm lost. > > > > CF is electrically IDE compatible, but not physically. It requires an > adaptor, but the adaptor is completely passive except for the power > connector. I bought mine from from this site a while ago: > http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm. Otherwise, you use CF just like a > regular HDD, no special drivers required. > > CF is less than 1/2 the price of DOC, so I have never really understood why > DOC became popular. >
Most wear-leveling algorithm in CF or DOM are rather stupid (if they do have) which result in unreliable parts. The algorithm in DOC's NFTL is a little bit better. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
