On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: WB> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:27:58PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: WB> > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: WB> > WB> > WB> > Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how many WB> > WB> > _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least one major WB> > WB> > question: where to boot from? especially in the case of standalone WB> > WB> > moving-parts-free router ;-) WB> > WB> WB> > WB> You can boot from CompactFlash cards, they behave like IDE drives. WB> > WB> > Aha, that makes sense... But then, I suppose, one needs some IDE<->CF WB> > converting device... Would you point me to the resources 'bout them? WB> WB> http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fcfa.html WB> WB> is what I have. Just remember one thing: in IDE-mode the CF cards can WB> *not* be hotplugged!
Yeah, thanks, just have found some at Google. Unfortunately, none of these devices seem to be easily available here in RU, but we'll try to workaround this ;-) Hotplug unavailability is not of great sense since in situation described CF would be the only ATAPI device in whole system. Thanks again for your help. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
