From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 21:29:51 -0600
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)
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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