Re: easy project? apple scsi hd on a card ie..scsi expander

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

On 2/10/04 8:48 PM, in article ioednTzUtOG0F7Td4p2dnA@comcast.com, "Bill
Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> : CF cards have a limited number of read/write cycles.
> : I wouldn't want to depend on one as a hard drive.  And
> : its not that notebook drives are becoming scarce, its
> : just SCSI drives.  The modern PCs and Macs all use IDE
> : drives now.
> 
> If you knew anything about CF cards, you'd realize
> that the limitation is not that low, and that it would
> take a long time to wear one out completely.  I think
> if you did a little study on them, starting with what
> is so far compiled on the CFFA site, you'd change your
> mind. 

I am quite familiar with CF cards; in fact I have a 32 MB CF card that I
tried using as a storage disk on a laptop and it started showing bit
failures after only a few months use as a read/write storage device.  And it
was infrequent use at that.

Perhaps by "wear one out completely" you mean that a person could lock off
access to the bad memory area and use other areas of the disk.  It is true
that a person can do that, but you still lose the information stored in the
bad sectors of the CF media.  To me, that's not acceptable for a long-term
solution.

In view of my first-hand experiences with CF media, I am unlikely to change
my opinion in view of what is compiled at the web site.

> Also, I "was" offering a solution to the lack of SCSI drives.
> Read my post once more.

So why bother with SASI/SCSI drives at all?  As I recall you were selling
some very nice 2.5" IDE drives with controller cards from your web site not
long ago.  Its not hard to find a 2.5" IDE hard drive with a capacity of 2
GB or more.  That seems like a better solution to me.

- Mike



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