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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Steve Simon wrote:
> Some people have used IDE flash cards in CPU/auth nodes 
> to make them at least rotating disk less if not actually
> network booting. You could keep the net boot and just store
> an nvram partition on the flash card.
> 
> For part numbers check the 9fans archives.

we've had good luck here with magicram IDE-FLASH parts.

ron