From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep) From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 11:41:01 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 747541c2-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I've gotten to use Flash RAM with IDE interface (IR-ICF01S for example) > as semiconductor disk strage, and now going to use it as our standalone > kfs based AUTH server. 256MB Flash RAM was enough for this purpose. > Thanks Geoff for you suggestion to this. The destination equipment seems to get this right (I've not tried so far), but the intermediate is a Flash RAM writer with a USB interface - the reason I looked at USB in Plan 9 as some of you may recall; that's still a pending development, what with OHCI and EHCI needing implementation from almost scratch. So at this point I'm at the mercy of a surprisingly helpful NetBSD environment, but I need Plan 9 to produce the image I eventually write onto the card. I could use NetBSD, up to a point, but it's bound to be a problem once I get to the actual Plan 9 dependent details. Hence my interest in a virtual disk simulation file server. As for Geoff's suggestion, I presume that he and others are aware that Flash RAM modules are available with the 40-pin IDE connector (male or female, I believe) built in, try ++L