24 Sep
2008
24 Sep
'08
7:33 p.m.
Gene Buckle wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Doc Shipley wrote:
I've used a 512MB card on an A1200. As far as I can tell, it doesn't
swap at all.
Doc
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Doc, there's a whole pile of Amiga users out there (found 'em today!)
that would argue that point with you. They're using them a lot on the
Amiga 1200, 500 and 2000 without issue.
I've toyed with the idea of setting up a Linux box with a decent-size
(512M) hunk of RAM,turning off swap and using it as a network
mailserver with CF instead of IDE disk to conserve power. I'm not
sure how long the CF would last. Assuming, say, 1000 emails
(including spam) a day worst-case, I might see one fail in less than
a year, depending upon where the writes landed. Leveling would help,
of course, but do CF cards auto-level, or does that responsibility
fall upon the system using them?
I can vouch for the fact that running a normal OS on CF will kill the
card in a hurry, even without swap.