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Using a solid state drive instead of normal hard drive in cab
Witchboard:
Couldn't you just disable the page file (set size to 0)?
JoyMonkey:
Even without a page file, there's a lot of read/writes going on with Windows. I've used a CF to IDE adapter and DOS with no problem (you can fit DOS, ArcadeOS and Vantage on a 16mb CF card!). With a DOS setup you don't have to worry about the cards read/write life-span.
The only thing stopping it from booting in a second is the BIOS check. Does anyone know of a particular motherboard that skips by this super fast? The older PC's I've been using seem to like taking their time going through the BIOS checks.
foomench:
--- Quote from: Witchboard on August 04, 2004, 08:16:12 am ---Couldn't you just disable the page file (set size to 0)?
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Win2k will complain about this and make a small one (20MB). I suspect XP will do the same. I don't know about Linux.
-foomench
Witchboard:
I wouldn't think that Win2K would be a good OS for a CF card. ;D It's just too big.
PixelCloud:
--- Quote from: foomench on August 04, 2004, 12:56:53 am ---There are a number of options of getting around the read/write cycles thing. You can make your boot partition read-only. The real issue is the swap space which involves lots of reading and writing. I've heard of some people setting that up on a network drive. I think most of these are pretty easy to do with Linux, but may be more difficult with Windows.
-foomench
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