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Re: Off Topic -- CF hard disk in PC?
Greg Buchner wrote:
In article <y46dnWk8YdfcHOvenZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
Charles wrote:
In article <WZGdnaGKjZvG3u3enZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@comcast.com>,
willy46pa@comcast.net says...
"brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net> wrote in message
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bill g. replies to my quesion below
quote
The Vulcan controller is IDE. Any CF to 40 pin IDE adapter
will work, but you must find 5v and ground on the controller,
(not hard), and hook it to a standard floppy power plug.
end guote
duh? technology marches on...they have stuff called a " CF to IDE adaptor"
duh.i had no idea
where can i get such a beast (compuguys?/ etc?)
http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart/homeskit.html
I know you guys also are familiar with windows pc's.
Is there a way to use one of these to make the boot disk for a pc and
store all the operating system of windows xp on the CF card (how big do
they get?) and load xp lickety split (like 2 secs), like back in the day
with the AE Ramkeeper?
Modern drives, particularly SATA drives, are _very_ much faster than
flash memory. Moving the boot image to flash would not speed things
up, it would slow them down.
Shhh!!! Don't tell Microsoft!
<http://www.everythingusb.com/windows_vista.html>
Greg B.
PS. Yea, I know flash is supposed to get faster, but I couldn't resist
after a straight line like that...
I was assuming that we were talking about CF cards, etc., which
are slow "disk drives" by today's standards (though they are
beginning to get faster). Perhaps the problem is that they have
been optimized for portable designs, where speed = power = bad.
Flash memory can also be organized for access just like static
RAM, and can be quite fast--it's just that the high-density
parts used in phones, cameras, and fobs isn't particularly
fast.
Of course, if software loading time were dominated by seeks,
then flash could begin to pull ahead.
-michael
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