DOC vs. IDE

CMZ linuxbios at hello.org
Mon Sep 30 21:20:01 CEST 2002


There are rumors that CF aren't reliable as DOC, is that true ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald G Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov>
To: "Steve M. Gehlbach" <steve at nexpath.com>
Cc: <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:47 AM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: DOC vs. IDE


> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
>
> > CF is less than 1/2 the price of DOC, so I have never really understood
why
> > DOC became popular.
>
> because the doc chip was a transparent replacement for the BIOS chip.
> That's the only reason.
>
> OUr 1024-node cluster uses CF in the primary IDE slot.
>
> ron
>
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