CF Cards

[LeBo]

I got my CF and IDE2CF adapter today. Will let you know how I come out in a couple of days. Just wondering if PE2USB will work on a CF card. I might have to Trueimage it over to the CF. I like BoincPE because it runs boinc in a ramdrive. That keeps down read writes to the CF....

[drezha]

The card specs look ok. But it's hard to tell from their information...I'd try to research a little more or just try it....It does mention IDE and ATA capable....

Hard one to call. My card information said right up front it was able to boot before I bought it... That is, the manufacturer said it operated in PIO and DMA mode...

I'll have a look around and see if anything jumps out at me. There's more shops than just CCL

[drezha]

Having trouble with mine. It appears the CF drive I ordered works fine but I'm not sure why (maybe it's my KVM) but my keyboard and mouse doesn't work with it and the display seems to not load. Well that's a a problem with Damn Small Linux I think. I wanted to run DSL on it to minimise disk writes but it doesn't seem to want to work.

Installing Lamppix to it now. Not what I want originally but it should get my webserver back up and going. Am downloading the network install of Debian and of Gentoo to try and install.

[drezha]

Got it running a striped down Debian install no probs.

[drezha]

Bender, saw this article today, might interest you.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/memory/506/1

[Bender10]

Thanks, I'll read it through this weekend.....(nice catch).

[Bender10]

This avenue of exploration seems to have slowed to a crawl. My fault I guess. I got my usb BOINCpe boxes up and running (and my CF booted server), then took it easy.

I just started planning a new cruncher build, and bouncing a few ideas around. I hope to use a CF card for the next box. Maybe around 8 gig, With some *nix os (to be determined). I'm not sure if running a ramdrive will help or not. (most likely a late summer project due to yard and garden drudgery, as mandated by the warden ....er my wife)

I also ran across a XP usb install that is supposed to werk... (http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176), I haven't tried this as I would rather go *nix.....

But I have found oodles of information about 'alternate' boot ideas in the car pc forums (http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/faq-emporium/)

[drezha]

Never thought of checking car forums.

I've had a graduate job offer so when I'm all done with exams and I know for sure I've got the job (it has some conditions), I think I'll purchase some bits and bobs for my current server and convert it to a media center as my main rig kind of fulfils server and and gaming/browsing features.

In fact I have want to buy a office PC for browsing and stuff whilst the main PC on but I'll pass on that idea :p