Memory upgrade fore old systems

[NotPasteurized]

I've got it the way of accessing ROM to use as ram like a swap but faster like the speed of ram and with the method of use as ram has so no need to bother with a new system.
To begin you need a gigabyte Ethernet and a ROM based cf card reader and a cf card of desired size.
Attach as normal all the parts and then before starting your system edit the card reader using a bios load up firmware editor to say power-0=qformat note that this is different in all card readers so only to be used as a possible solution and is not likely to work on many devices.
then using the same tool set a extra line of text in the Ethernet device that gives a directory of a swap command, you may find other solutions to this such as if you don't care about loosing space on the cf a swap may be added to it instead.
Finally you can start the system and make sure that all the drivers are in place.
I make no guarantee and even though it worked on my system it needs more testing, but that seed I have 512mb of ram and a pentium core duo processor with fedora 7 running and all seems fine now that I added a 4gb cf card.

[b_martinez]

Just out of curiousity, how will the constant read/write to the cf disk hold up? I was under the impression that the constant writing to a flash drive will shorten the life of the drive. Will this happen to the cf disk?
Bill

[John the train]

Originally Posted by b_martinez

Just out of curiousity, how will the constant read/write to the cf disk hold up? I was under the impression that the constant writing to a flash drive will shorten the life of the drive. Will this happen to the cf disk?
Bill

Others - more knowlegeable on this than I am - discussed this in a thread on using flash memory as a hard drive, though I can't trace the thread at the moment. Obviously not using the right search terms - see my sig. !
From memory I think it was concluded that a normal flash drive was good for ca. 5000 read/write cycles, but don't quote me.

[Zero-Override]

well that's not a lot =/ even ancient 20GB E-IDE drives got 40-50k cycles =/

and a downside about it is the writespeed, since it is quite a bit lower, the read speeds are a lot higher which is good though

one tip if you are going to use this, investigate a bit about the read/write speeds of the cf-card you are going to get

[NotPasteurized]

A source informed me that the same effect I was going fore is in use with les programing skill using a Sata or even a 3.5 in hard-drive with a fire-wire attached.
so dont waste to much time or cf cards pleas

[Zero-Override]

well actually, the read speeds aren't as high, and also, almost the smallest drive you can buy today is 80GB.... that's one f'n HUGE swapfile plus the expenses are higher

[leadgolem]

Originally Posted by John the train

Others - more knowlegeable on this than I am - discussed this in a thread on using flash memory as a hard drive, though I can't trace the thread at the moment. Obviously not using the right search terms - see my sig. !
From memory I think it was concluded that a normal flash drive was good for ca. 5000 read/write cycles, but don't quote me.

I believe this is the thread you are referring to.

[John the train]

Originally Posted by leadgolem

I believe this is the thread you are referring to.

Yes, that's the one.