James Richard Tyrer wrote:
As I suspected, this doesn't work with a USB drive:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9019742&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8
However, my suggestion to use a parallel RAID arrangement with 4
flashcards to provide a 32 bit flash drive might be fast enough. It
really needs to be faster than a very fast SCSI drive to be a viable idea.
As pointed out, one has to wonder if using flash memory for the swap
drive would wear it out in a short time.
Doing some more research, it appears that what is needed is a hardware
RAID 2 controller card. These don't seem to exist. Also it would take
7 flash cards for a 32 bit wide disk. OTOH, this would appear to
address the problem of the flash cards wearing out since such a system
would continue to operate OK with one card completely dead. And, IIUC,
the cards themselves have some error correction.
--
JRT
_______________________________________________
Open-graphics mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics
List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
