[haiku-development] Re: AMD Geode nano-size motherboard

On 2008-04-15 at 22:15:37 [+0200], Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> scott mc wrote:
> 
> > Correct, there is no fan.  CPU gets a little warm but not too bad.
> > It's sorta strange working with a computer board which is making zero
> > noise.  I only know it's going to boot up with I see the orange LED on
> > the monitor turn green.
> > They gave away some of those Eee PCs at the LUGRadio show this past
> > weekend.  I think Haiku would be able to run on one, we just need to
> > get our hands on ones is all.
> 
> We also need a Flash aware file system unless we want to kill its Flash
> HD in a matter of weeks. :)

Actually that's not true anymore. Current Flash controllers shuffle the 
blocks dynamically so that write accesses are distributed equally. The last 
hardware test I read about it mentioned, that even after running a test 
that permanently wrote to the same blocks for several weeks, no errors were 
encountered.

I believe it was at least half a year or so ago, that I first heard that 
the controllers use such a strategy. So I guess all modern devices do that, 
now.

CU, Ingo

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