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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 21:29:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405132128280.25995-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <026a01c4393b$7a9f2400$127e7d50@SOMA>

On Fri, 14 May 2004, boyd, rounin wrote:

> right, but it still smacks of shitty h/w.

the wearing out thing is really weird. My (4 year old) reading about flash
led me to believe the process was close to electrochemical and the cells
gradually wear out with repeated transitions.

So it's great for ROM, ok for PROM (how we use it here), lousy for normal
disk usage.

ron



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-14  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-13  2:57 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-05-13  3:20 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-13  3:22   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-13  8:18 ` Richard Miller
2004-05-13  8:34   ` lucio
2004-05-13  8:52     ` Richard Miller
2004-05-13 13:52     ` ron minnich
2004-05-13 17:35   ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-13 18:43     ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-13 19:14       ` matt
2004-05-13 19:02     ` Nigel Roles
2004-05-13 19:18       ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-13 20:25         ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-13 20:47           ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-13 23:44             ` Russ Cox
2004-05-14  0:15               ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-14  0:24               ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-14  9:56             ` a
2004-05-13 22:18           ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-13 22:31             ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-13 22:39               ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-13 22:41                 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-13 22:56                   ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-13 23:01                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-14  3:29                   ` ron minnich [this message]
2004-05-14  3:30                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-13 22:51             ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-13 23:35               ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-13 19:51     ` ron minnich
2004-05-13 22:40       ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-13  9:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-13  9:22   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-13 12:45   ` dvd
2004-05-13 14:11     ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-13 14:19       ` dvd
2004-05-13 17:12         ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-14  1:03         ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-14  3:13           ` dvd
2004-05-14  3:24             ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-14  8:59               ` David Tolpin
2004-05-14  9:17                 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-15  8:23                   ` Adrian Tritschler
2004-05-15 12:05                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-17  1:48                   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-14 16:31                 ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-14 16:53                   ` a
2004-05-14 17:11                     ` Sape Mullender
2004-05-14 17:22                       ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-05-14 19:36                         ` ron minnich
2004-05-14 19:52                           ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-05-14 18:12                       ` a
2004-05-14 17:21                     ` dvd
2004-05-14 18:14                       ` a
2004-05-14 10:01               ` a
2004-05-14 22:31                 ` Geoff Collyer
     [not found] <06d501c4350f$006a13f0$265d7d50@SOMA>
2004-05-10  4:54 ` lucio
     [not found] <ee9e417a040508081247498d73@mail.gmail.com>
2004-05-10  4:43 ` lucio
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-08  8:53 lucio
2004-05-08  9:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-08  9:30   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-08  9:37     ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-08  9:41     ` lucio
2004-05-08  9:50   ` lucio
2004-05-08 11:38     ` Charles Forsyth
2004-05-09  5:50     ` Geoff Collyer
2004-05-09  6:03       ` Geoff Collyer
2004-05-10  0:59         ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-10  5:10         ` lucio
2004-05-10  5:25           ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-10  5:30             ` lucio
2004-05-13  2:36             ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-13  2:42               ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-13  2:50                 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-10  5:08       ` lucio
2004-05-08  9:56 ` lucio
2004-05-10  9:09   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-10  9:17     ` lucio
2004-05-08  9:58 ` Richard Miller
2004-05-08 10:02   ` lucio
2004-05-08 10:47     ` Richard Miller
2004-05-08 11:13       ` lucio

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