SCSI to IDE bridges...

Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com
Thu Sep 25 13:09:37 CDT 2008


Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> Well, CF is just seen as an IDE disk. What you need to do on the OS side
> is just:
>  - mount the filesystem(s) on the CF with noatime (so reads don't cause
>    writes)
>   
I understand that, but I read that more work had been done in this area 
and there was a new functionality that was even better than noatime.

> That however, has one problem: it makes the setup a lot more special.
> With the above steps, you can just run it like any other Linux setup.
>   
Maybe in general, but Pyramid itself is trivial to install.  You dd to a 
CF, and boot.  there are commands (mountrw and mountro) so you can 
remount the fs for config file updates and such.

Jim






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