37 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersRe: Frustration with SCSI system| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Rick Hamell | Sep 19, 2000 5:35 am | |
| Rick Hamell | Sep 19, 2000 8:42 am | |
| Alfred Perlstein | Sep 20, 2000 12:51 pm | |
| Edward Elhauge | Sep 20, 2000 12:58 pm | |
| Wilko Bulte | Sep 20, 2000 12:59 pm | |
| Marc Tardif | Sep 20, 2000 1:08 pm | |
| Wilko Bulte | Sep 20, 2000 1:18 pm | |
| David Scheidt | Sep 20, 2000 1:20 pm | |
| Alfred Perlstein | Sep 20, 2000 1:23 pm | |
| Edward Elhauge | Sep 20, 2000 1:24 pm | |
| Fred Clift | Sep 20, 2000 1:34 pm | |
| Bernd Walter | Sep 20, 2000 1:43 pm | |
| Alfred Perlstein | Sep 20, 2000 1:47 pm | |
| Nick Rogness | Sep 20, 2000 1:48 pm | |
| Matthew Jacob | Sep 20, 2000 1:55 pm | |
| Bernd Walter | Sep 20, 2000 2:26 pm | |
| Aleksandr A.Babaylov | Sep 20, 2000 2:55 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Sep 20, 2000 3:01 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Sep 20, 2000 3:02 pm | |
| David Scheidt | Sep 20, 2000 3:28 pm | |
| Aleksandr A.Babaylov | Sep 20, 2000 3:50 pm | |
| Sergey Babkin | Sep 20, 2000 5:47 pm | |
| Mike | Sep 20, 2000 6:09 pm | |
| David Scheidt | Sep 20, 2000 6:50 pm | |
| Aleksandr A.Babaylov | Sep 20, 2000 8:58 pm | |
| Keith Kemp | Sep 21, 2000 3:28 pm | |
| Douglas Swarin | Sep 21, 2000 4:23 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Sep 21, 2000 4:44 pm | |
| Sergey Babkin | Sep 21, 2000 5:08 pm | |
| Joe Greco | Sep 21, 2000 7:32 pm | |
| Joe Greco | Sep 21, 2000 7:37 pm | |
| Douglas Swarin | Sep 21, 2000 10:26 pm | |
| jdb-...@layer8.net | Sep 21, 2000 11:55 pm | |
| Adrian Chadd | Sep 22, 2000 7:23 am | |
| Wes Peters | Sep 22, 2000 10:41 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Sep 23, 2000 8:21 am | |
| Andreas Klemm | Oct 3, 2000 11:18 am |
| Subject: | Re: Frustration with SCSI system | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Adrian Chadd (adr...@FreeBSD.ORG) | |
| Date: | Sep 22, 2000 7:23:15 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000, Douglas Swarin wrote:
Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to 128MB or so, which is just fine for a boot partition. Since flash drives have no moving parts, mechanical failure is not an issue, and since the root partition is not written to much, the flash will not wear out for a long time (flash cells wear out after about 100,000 writes; the flash drives do load balancing and stuff to ensure that the (many) cells in the drive are written to evenly).
The neater magic will come out later when the only thing that needs to be machine-boot-readable is /boot, and your / can be vinum. Then all you need to have "hotswap" is your kernel+loader, which you could possibly get away even on a floppy disk.
Adrian
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