On Fri, 20 May 2011, Phil Turmel wrote:
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adidecf.asp
(Just to show what's out there.) The embedded boards I use occasionally
have the equivalent of this soldered to their motherboards.
The best DMA capable CF cards are usually found in markets that cater to
industrial designers or to professional photographers.
FWIW: I've built a few systems which boot off flash, then run from SATA
drives - but it all depends on the motherboards. These days there are many
IDE (and now SATA) drives - maybe the forerunner to SSD's... e.g. I use
these sort of things:
http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=129
It's easy to have root on a small flash IDE drive then the rest of the
system on RAID'd SATA drives. (swap, /usr, /var, /home, etc.)
Is that good? I don't know - but I also build lots of small embedded
systems (no drives) for other purposes which boot off these type of
devices and I've not had an issue with one failling in 5+ years...
Motherboards are increasingly not coming with IDE ports though, but things
move on!
Gordon
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