[wellylug] Flash RAM/EPROM disks

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 16:58, David Antliff wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Tony Wills wrote:
> > For larger systems some sort of flash ram card (32MB?) would seem to suit.  I 
> > see there are 'flash ram cards' and 'compact flash ram cards'), does anyone 

[SNIP]

>  Linux treats them 
> as IDE hard disks but their hot-pluggability is a bit suspect (we weren't 
> able to shut down the IDE interface prior to removal even with hdparm so 
> it's probably not even meant to work) and we've killed one or two.

from what I've read about them, the computer sees them as a hard disk,
so uses the IDE driver in the kernel.

trying to hotplug it, is like removing a hard disk from a computer
that's on - you just don't do it. :-)

Most say in the docs (& often on the webpages) that they can't be
hotplugged.


I'm not sure if you can get hotpluggable ones at all... If so, they
would proberly cost a lot more.


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-- Jethro Carr

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