the one i have is a Compact Flash only reader (not the 6 in 1) and its attached to the USB. actually i opeened a hole on the back of the server so I can loop the cable to the usb port behind. so it looks like an ordinary drive at the front but cable dangling at the behind of the computer.
Ive seen the IDE?ATAPI ones on ebay and never tried them..from what they describe they are not hot-swappable (you can't pull it off when the machine is up), it behaves exactly like a hard disk. there are stuff on the net that looks like IDE cables with flash reader on the other end. They can replace IdE disks so yes they will boot. Those will look nice on a laptop/handheld pcs. Even the shape are designed to fit laptop hard disk bays (2.5" or whatever the size is). Unfortunately they're no replacement for true disks because the read/write cycles are finite...you'll damage them when you use them for swap for example. (This is the info i heard. i dont know how many times you can write to a flash but lets say a few hundred thousand times, then it dies.). They could be good for read-only filesystems. jondz On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 02:06, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i have a generic 6-in-1 reader (generic kasi di naman kilala yung brand) and > > in my experience my mandrake 9.1 can only use the CF reader. I can also use > > the CF reader in my Sandisk CF/SmartMedia combo reader (I dont have any > > SmartMedia card to test with). > > Hmm... is that 6-in-1 reader of yours the one you attach to your > IDE/ATAPI bus or the USB one? If it's the IDE/ATAPI type, any ideas if > you can boot from it. Those generic readers are cheap. :) It would be > nice to have one as a rescue disk or LTSP or a Linux-based > firewall/router on a mini-ITX-based system (forget using your old 486, > they machines require more power, which would cost you more in the long > run, especially that we have that [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ PPA). -- Hagibis Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
