[openbeos] Re: compact flash (booting from CF/IDE adapter)

> > but then hand over everything to a regular IDE disk;
> > swap, home, and other things that regularly change.
> > Having frequently-changing data on a CF will kill it 
> > pretty fast with its limited write cycles.
> 
> There's always ramdisk, NFS, etc.
>
> Yeah, but not when you boot. :) Sure, if you had some kind of static 
> RAM that kept its contents through reboot, but seeing that's not 
> available... :)

There is a company that makes PCI cards with ram slots on them that the
system will see as a regular IDE drive.  I can't find it using google
because of the commonality of the words "PCI RAM IDE HARD DRIVE CARD", but
I'm absolutely positive that it exists as a commercial product.

Good luck, 
OJ

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