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Motion LS800 table HD failure at 14,000 feet
Peter wrote:
snip I reckon that, as a minimum, one would need to move the windoze swapfile, and registry, to the SD card. Once upon a time I had to run a program called Filemon to monitor disk accesses, to see why an auto power-down SCSI HD would keep powering back up again, and I found a registry access every 1 second or so, plus an access (for no apparent reason) to every fixed HD every few minutes. This was on NT4 though. What we really need to do is boot the OS from a flash disk and run it in a ramdisk. This allows the OS to read / write its boot partition, but does not rely on a hard drive to do it. I am not a Windows guy, so I don't even know if that's possible without paying Micro$oft lots of money for its development kits or embedded version, but common (and free) Linux "Live" CDs such as Ubuntu run like that, so the basic premise of operation is sound. In fact, I just built a custom, full-featured Linux distribution that takes up only 400MB on a flash disk and I wasn't trying to save space. There are other distros such as Damn-Small-Linux that take up only 50MB. So, at least with Linux, it's safe to say the OS won't consume the flash disk. I have no idea what a minimum install of Windows consumes, but it's a far cry from 50MB. If the flight planning / charting software houses would stop drinking the Micro$oft Kool-aid and migrate their apps to a cross-platform development environment (Qt, Java, or GTK), it would be a relatively simple affair to build a Linux-based system that runs entirely from flash media. And, of course, no discussion on the use of general purpose PCs in the cockpit would be complete without a comment regarding stability. I have Linux servers at work that have been up for over six months(!) Think about that the next time your Windows-based tablet PC inexplicably hangs just as you're about to start your approach. Been there, done that, but I didn't get the T-shirt because we were VFR. -Doug -------------------- Doug Vetter, ATP/CFI http://www.dvatp.com -------------------- |
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