Re: CF cards as storage - wear leveling

> > > I don't think anybody is actually using real CF cards anymore, they are > about a decade out of date. > > ​Well, a few of us are still using them for 8-bit hard drive emulators. Examples include the XT-CF Lite for PC compatibles with ISA slots (which I use), and the CFFA3000 for the Apple

Re: CF cards as storage - wear leveling

I don't think anybody is actually using real CF cards anymore, they are about a decade out of date. Jon Jon, This is the list where we discuss using stuff that's a decade and more out of date. (I've got a large box of real 16MB CF cards that I got for nothing on freecycle that I keep

Re: CF cards as storage - wear leveling

On 03/19/2017 11:20 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > Just about ANY CF card you buy today new will have wear leveling. > It's almost impossible without trying to be an ass to the card to > have it fail in a few weeks. I've run 64MB cards in Soekris boxes for > a decade w/o any problems. The

Re: CF cards as storage - wear leveling

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: > > I just bought an IDE-CF adapter the other day with the intention of > replacing the spinning rust in my disk imaging system (which is some > early/mid-90s 80486-based thing). > > However, the CF entry

Re: CF cards as storage - wear leveling

On 03/19/2017 11:06 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: I just bought an IDE-CF adapter the other day with the intention of replacing the spinning rust in my disk imaging system (which is some early/mid-90s 80486-based thing). However, the CF entry on Wikipedia says: "Most CompactFlash

CF cards as storage - wear leveling

I just bought an IDE-CF adapter the other day with the intention of replacing the spinning rust in my disk imaging system (which is some early/mid-90s 80486-based thing). However, the CF entry on Wikipedia says: "Most CompactFlash flash-memory devices limit wear on blocks by varying the