Dec 25, 2020 3:26:42 PM Frantisek Rysanek <frantisek.rysa...@post.cz>:
> A) standard desktop Windows (XP or earlier) with swapping left operational, 1 > year of lifetime sounds about right. It sounds like you're using the card for the OS + swap, though, rather than having separate cards for the OS and swap. My plan is to separate them, and probably to overprovision the swap device significantly. Could people that are quoting lifetimes for CF cards used as swap provide the following information?: 1) Are you combining swap and file partitions on the same CF card? 2) What overprovisioning factor are you using (total device size divided by sum of typical runtime swap usage plus any files stored on the device)? 3) How deeply is the machine typically swapping (total memory usage including swap divided by available RAM) For the machine I'm considering, the answers are: 1) No 2) To be determined, based on answers I get here 3) About 3:1 > Though I cannot rule out that a particular BIOS would in fact inspect the > partition table and would not approve of partitions larger than some > arbitrary size :-) The BIOS for the machine in question does this whenever it sees a change in hardware on a given ATA connector. However, if you sneakily take the drive to another machine, change the partition table, and connect it back to the same ATA connector, it will happily use the drive with the new partition table. Win95 and Linux are then able to work with any over-sized partitions. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
