Re: Arcom Control Systems SBC-MediaGX

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 14:54:52 EST


> Does this sound like the sort of flash that is supported ???

No

> The FlashFX software has been designed to incorporated wear levelling
> algorithms. The wear

Three things you need to know.

1. The DOS drivers wont hekp you using a real OS
2. Wear levelling is meshed in a myriad of mostly stupid patents so
        adding your own support gets you a product that gets you sued in the
        USA.
3. The linux fs's dont work well on flash

Also worth knowing is SANdisk compact flash looks like ide and works well
on Linux.

Alan

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