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Re: bootable dimm card, upto 256mb

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:12:18AM -0500,  wrote:
> I was looking for a solid state drive to replace a disk in a machine I have, 
> and found this neat lil bugger
> 
> plug this dimm card into a ram slot and boot from it! I didnt know this was 
> possible, but it seems really useful.

	I don't think it's that easy.  I think that this is just another packaging
for DiskOnChip -- this product is for systems integraters making their own
hardware.

> imagine if you had an IDE flash disk too, oh theres another dimm card that 
> lets you locks the disk or areas of it, Im not sure, so that it cant be 
> copied or viewed... nice if you want to store your PGP keys I guess

http://www.m-sys.com/content/products/product.asp?PID=17&FILE=DOCIdePro&FAM=doc

	Here's the IDE version, which looks like what you want.  It actually does
look pretty cool -- makes sense for environments that would destroy a device
with moving parts...

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