24 Apr
2012
24 Apr
'12
11:51 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:21 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding their usability as disk drives, though
(something Eric Smith
was pointing out), some of our embedded customers use purpose-built CF
cards that are meant to be used as embedded drives (specifically, they
are using Western Digital's SiliconDisk line). ?I wonder if their
performance is improved over standard CompactFlash for ATA hard drive
operations; I never ran too many benchmarks.
I have a few CF-to-IDE adapters and a couple PCMCIA-to-IDE adapters -
I'd be curious to see how to set up a viable benchmark on a Linux box
to test media for 2 buffers vs 6 buffers, etc. Mostly, I use CF cards
for my older pro-grade DSLR, and for projects like the Elf2K and a few
hobby-built items that implement a simple IDE interface so they work
with rotating media or CF cards. I have one Seagate PCMCIA-type-3
Microdrive; the rest of what I do is CF and Type-2 PCMCIA flash
modules (from 2.5MB to 2GB so far).
I do have this ancient 3rd party IDE sidecar for the Amiga 500 - I
should drop one of my CF adapters in that and give it a spin.
-ethan