In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes:
: Modern flash chips support on the order of 1,000,000 write cycles, so this
: is not such a concern anymore.  There is no reason why we shouldn't put
: a filesystem on a flash card.

We weren't talking about modern flash cards :-).  These flash cards
have 10,000 to 100,000 write cycles per page.

: A better choice might be the flash disk cards from SanDisk and others,
: since they do have an ATA interface and look like a small ATA drive
: to the pccard code.  Unless the linear flash cards are a LOT less
: expensive, there isn't a lot of reason to do all the extra work.

That's why I've done support for the ata flash cards, but haven't yet
done the linear flash cards. :-)

Warner


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