On 27 Jan 2003, Jeff Bolle wrote:

> How rough are the 2GB drives on your battery life?  That would be a real
> improvement over the 256MB CF card I have now.
> 
> Jeff

dunno... really haven't timed/tested... i can tell you that the 2GB drive 
*will* suck batteries in comparison to a microdrive (which draw more power 
than flash CF, IIRC)...

btw, i found out that my Xircom CF Ethernet won't work in the CF slot with
the 2GB PCMCIA drive inserted (totally 'horks' the system?!?!)... however,
having a 2GB HD is quite handy for development, backup, and installs (as i
*can* use the 2GB HD with a microdrive in the CF slot)!

now if we can get the D-Link CF 802.11b card supported in an
audio/trkpt/LCD suspend kernel - whoo hoo!

i'm always amazed at what the z50 and netbsd can do!

> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:35, billy ball wrote:
> 
> > fyi:
> > 
> > - recently snarfed one of the Kingston 2GB PCMCIA HDs (they're going for 
> > $79 on-line now)....
> > 
> > - formatted the drive (20MB DOS, Linux, 100MB DOS)... put 
> > pbsdboot.exe, the install kernel (1.5.1) and the boot kernel (greg's 
> > trkpt/audio/LCD version) on the 20MB partition... put the install files on 
> > the 100MB DOS partition...
> > 
> > - booted the install kernel (from the 20MB DOS partition)... one 'gotcha' 
> > was that i had to re-insert the card so that the installer would recognize 
> > the card as an available drive...
> > 
> > - next 'gotcha' was that i had to go to the shell via the utility menu and 
> > run disklabel to add the 100MB DOS partition as wd0f...
> > 
> > - selected the 'unmounted' filesystem option, fed it wd0f and msdos, and 
> > ... bingo! the install proceeds...
> > 
> > nice job, NetBSD folks! 
> 
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