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Re: HDD-less wearable/CD-Rom for a HDD?

Actually with the price of flash disks dropping so rapidly, I'd do a solid
state disk.
have ram, and 2 flash disks. one removable for data swap.
but all in all a cdrom drive draws 2 to 3 times the power than a laptop ide
drive does, the cdrom cannot handle movement while
jogging,walking,breathing hard. and unless you used a caddy system for the
cd wierd angles would make disk insertion and removal a pain.  Now if they
could get cdroms to work better under movement. (audio cdplayers cheat by
loading 2 to 4 meg of ram with the audio stream so that skips wont be
noticed, and minor vobrations cause data corruption that your ears cant
hear but the computer would freak at.

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> From: James R. Hall <>
> To: Michael Sharp <>; R. Paul McCarty
<>
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: HDD-less wearable/CD-Rom for a HDD?
> Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 9:38 PM
> 
> well, in dos/winslows 95/98 you have ye olde ramdrive.sys
> (I was thinking of putting gobs-o-ram in my comp. and
> setting it up with ramdrive.sys so I could copy quake2 to
> a ramdrive and squeeze more fps out of it, have to
> wait less for the hdd, etc... :P then I woke up
> and realized how much ram costs (for the 168 pin stuff)
> and how big q2 is and decided that wouldn't be too good
> until cost per mb on ram was lower (ie $1 per 2mb))
> heh.
> btw, I used ramdrive on my old 486sx20 (4mb ram) sort of
> as a disk drive cache... I would setup a 1.44mb ram drive
> in my memory and copy the contents of a disk there so it
> runs faster :P hehe... I was desperate for speed then...
> (please excuse my half-asleep ravings, er, rambleings)
> 
>      -James, N9XLC
>      -
>      -certified NERD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Sharp <>
> To: R. Paul McCarty <>
> Cc:  <>
> Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: HDD-less wearable/CD-Rom for a HDD?
> 
> 
> >> > Could Linux be made to operate in this fashion?
> >> 
> >> Aren't RedHat install cd's 5.x bootable? 
> >
> >Yes, to my knowledge they are. Thus we have a bootable OS to some
extent,
> >correct?
> >
> >>  
> >> This seems doable, but the power requirements for a cd might be higher
> >> then a hdd, not to mention the biggest drawback being you have to
> >> constantly burn cds to add apps, services, etc.  Not to mention the
fact
> >
> >True, but the idea of a customizable OS sounds a bit thrilling :)
> >
> >> that you can't store any new data on your wearable (unless you have
some
> >> cleaver memory backup power scheme).  Seems like this would only be
> >useful
> >> with a fast network connection.
> >
> >Right, but I wonder how hard it would be to trick a computer into
thinking
> >a chunk of ram was drive E: (or whatever)?
> >
> >> 
> >> If you could combine a cd bootable os, and a 3" cdrom drive that might
> >> make a great wearable.
> >
> >Does the Sony MD support data writing/reading?
> >
> >Ciao'
> >Mike
> >
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