Adam Sherman wrote:
On 6-Aug-09, at 11:32 , Thomas Burgess wrote:
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on
SOME machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to allow
for usb booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i like
compact flash because it is fairly easy to use as a cheap alternative
to a hard drive. I mirror the cf drives exactly like they are hard
drives so if one fails i just replace it. USB is a little harder to
do that with because they are just not as consistent as compact
flash. But honestly it should work and many people do this.
This product looks really interesting:
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad2sahdcf.asp
But I can't confirm it will show both cards as separate disks…
My read is that it won't (which is supported by the single SATA data
connector,) but it will do the mirroring for you.
I know that I generally prefer to let XFS handle the redundancy for me,
but for you it may be enough to let this do the mirroring for the root pool.
It seems too expensive to get 2. Do they have a cheaper one that takes
only 1 CF card?
-Kyle
A.
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CTO, Versature Corp.
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