* Derek Holzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-02 21:12]: > The whole idea of read-only is for two reasons: > > 1) To protect the HD in case of unexpected shutdowns (which could happen > nightly in a typical museum situation) > 2) To preserve the CF memory, which has a limited number of write > cycles, in the case of a HD-less system
Are you sure on this point? I just switched from a normal 2.5" IDE drive in my laptop to a compact flash card using an IDE<->CF adaptor. Are you referring to USB memory sticks (which might inhibit the same technology) or to CF cards as well? Now that i am so happy having a completely silent laptop, i might run into read/write errors soon.... rgds, PP _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
