On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:25:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I guess they are great and I'm an idiot, nuff said...
No. I don't think so.
There are lots of things (in techy stuff particularly) that are true at
some point.
Later on that thing becomes no longer true but the meme hangs around
and m
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From: RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:50 pm
Subject: Re: help needed with laptop hdd
To: "misc@openbsd.org"
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:26:14 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >You'd be unhappy with the
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:26:14 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>You'd be unhappy with the write cycle longevity of a flash drive for
>regular use anyway. Flash and super dense mag drives seem fine for use
>if write/erase only happens occasionally (i.e. embedded/mp3 etc...)
>
>The next step:
The ne
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:20:49 +0200
Maurice Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 19:02:23 +, Christian
> Weisgerber wrote:
> >I need to look at the options for fitting a compact flash as an ATA
> >drive into a normal PC.
>
> There are lot's of adapters. Some
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From: Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007 2:29 pm
Subject: Re: help needed with laptop hdd
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> On 2007/09/20 10:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > You'd be unhappy
On 2007/09/20 10:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You'd be unhappy with the write cycle longevity of a flash drive for
> regular use anyway.
This depends very much on what your regular use is. They're a lot
tougher than "common knowledge" would have you believe.
On Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 19:02:23 +, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>I need to look at the options for fitting a compact flash as an ATA
>drive into a normal PC.
There are lot's of adapters. Some examples can be found here:
http://www.pcengines.ch/cflash.htm
Maurice
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You'd be unhappy with the write cycle longevity of a flash drive for
> regular use anyway.
I'm not going to take your word for it.
Speaking of flash drives, I recently realized again that the OpenBSD
CVS repository isn't all that big by todays standards: about 4 GB,
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:57 am
Subject: Re: help needed with laptop hdd
To: misc@openbsd.org
> Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I just learned that the disk in the X40 is kind
Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just learned that the disk in the X40 is kind of special. It is a 1.8"
> hard disk that does NOT use the ZIF connector (these are somewhat common)
> but the same 44pin connector 2.5" disks use. 1.8" disks with that
> connector have only ever been mad
* Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-10 17:57]:
> unfortunately the harddisk in my X40 died. And even worse, I just
> learned that the disk in the X40 is kind of special. It is a 1.8" hard
> disk that does NOT use the ZIF connector (these are somewhat common)
> but the same 44pin connec
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:48:31PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> unfortunately the harddisk in my X40 died. And even worse, I just
> learned that the disk in the X40 is kind of special. It is a 1.8" hard
> disk that does NOT use the ZIF connector (these are somewhat common)
> but the s
On Monday, September 10, 2007 at 17:48:31 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>unfortunately the harddisk in my X40 died. And even worse, I just
>learned that the disk in the X40 is kind of special. It is a 1.8" hard
>disk that does NOT use the ZIF connector (these are somewhat common)
>but the
On 9/10/07, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> unfortunately the harddisk in my X40 died. And even worse, I just
> learned that the disk in the X40 is kind of special. It is a 1.8" hard
> disk that does NOT use the ZIF connector (these are somewhat common)
> but the same 44pin conn
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