I assume you had to reformat the CF from PC to Mac in order to use it as a RAM disk. How did you get the CF to format as a Mac disk? Are you using HFS or HFS+? Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm =20 >> There was a post here a few weeks ago about using CF with an adapter as >> virtual RAM. >> =20 >> Would that be useable as a means of adding RAM for Photoshop or other >> simlar "hungry" apps? >> =20 >> I have that 5300 with 24 RAM, since CF should be (is it?) faster than the >> latency/access times of SCSI it might be worth using CF as the source for >> VM in this powerbook, instead of the hard drive. >> =20 >> Any flaws with this thinking? > > I have one 64Mb i my PB1400 as a RAM drive for a program that runns 24h/day > and it works great and it is no problem as a VM eather. > > Sandisk writes this: > Reliability and Maintenance > MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) >1,000,000 hours > Preventive Maintenance None > Data Reliability < 1 non-recoverable error in 10(14) bits > read > http://www.sandisk.com/oem/cf-spec.htm if you want more info. > > Many regards > > Bengt Randers > Sweden
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