Re: EMC Black Box

Ray,

If you're using one of the IDE Flash ROM drives, I believe the internal
controller will do the ware leveling. TFFS (m-systems) and a linear
card (or the disk-on-chip) will also do this. So it shouldn't be a
problem, IMO.

Alan KM6VV


Ray wrote:

>
> Hi Lloyd
>
> > From: Lloyd G <lloydg_98@...>
> <s>
> > Now instead of making EMC ROM based why not plug in a
> > Flash HDD emulator, plug in a CDROM run the BDI set
> > everything up to talk to a remote windows computer.
>
> Good thoughts. One caution is that the EMC compares the running ini and var
> files with those stored on disk when it shuts down . The new will be written
> if they are different from the disk versions. Someone suggested that your
> flash be large enough so that you are not always re-writing over the same
> place.
>
> Have you looked at the LTSP stuff and netboot?
>
> Ray