24 Sep
2008
24 Sep
'08
7:25 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Doc Shipley wrote:
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.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
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.