Steve Gehlbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > I don't think there is USB-IDE. I think the stack looks like USB-SCSI. > > The challenge is that the USB stack is fairly tall. > > We should be able to incorporate a version of that into etherboot or FILO. > > I don't think we want a version of that in the core of LinuxBIOS, but > > I can be surprised. > > I checked the latest EPIA BIOS and it says USB-HDD. > > I figured the USB stack was deep; I may do some experimenting with Linux and > booting from one of these and see what is involved. > > I haven't checked the price to see how these compare with Compact Flash, but the > > small size and ease of customer installation is attractive. The CF requires an > adaptor to IDE that is a little awkward. The USB flash memory can be installed > by a customer without opening the case, and saves the price of a CDROM drive > (and the mechanical failure problems with a CDROM drive). All of this is from > the standpoint of an embedded system and may be of no interest to clusters.
I totally think USB is interesting. My only concern is that we will have more problems getting it right than we did IDE. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
