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Paul Bender wrote:
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<pre wrap="">David Whyte wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Ray Lischner <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:linux@tempest-sw.com"><linux@tempest-sw.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> I decided to use a conventional SATA disk drive for my FE. It's cheap,
easy, and completely silent because the system doesn't touch the disk
once it's up and running. I don't see the disk LED light during normal
playback activities.
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<pre wrap="">Yeah, I am leaning towards this now. I completely forgot about the
write limitation and I am sceptical of everything going smooth with
the IDE adaptor and the like. I can get a cheap 80GB IDE Western
Digital HDD for ~$80AUD, which is fine with me. I doubt myth will
touch the disk after boot up anyways if I put 1GB (or more) of RAM in
it seeing how this is a FE only (at this stage).
Thanks for all the pointers though guys, I am glad I asked here first.
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In general, Linux distributions will do things such as write
/var/log/messages after they boot. However, if you redirect your syslog
to another machine or reconfigure your syslog to log only errors, then
you can avoid this.
For what it is worth, live distributions and distributions such as
MiniMyth are designed to never write their storage medium, because they
expect their storage medium to be read only. Therefore, these
distributions will only would only write your compact flash storage when
you update the distribution.
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I use a CF card and IDE adapter to run my main FE/SBE machine. I have
some dma issues with the card and/or adapter so it takes a while to
boot, but after that it is fast. To not have to worry about the
majority of the writes to the drive, I have a ram disk get created on
boot up that is mounted as /var/log and copy a backup of that directory
onto the ram drive from the cf disk. I also have a few other random
files linked to that directory that are being written to sometimes.
When the machine reboots, it copies the current directory back onto the
flash drive. I am not worried if the machine loses power or for what
ever reason does not have a current backup of the ram disk since it is
just log files anyway. Has been working great for a few months for me
so far. I didn't want to mess with net booting or anything else since
it does have a tuner and slave duties.<br>
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Jon Heizer<br>
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