car box

[Christopher Chisholm]

nice, I found a couple great things on that site!  I was thinking of 
using a laptop drive, something designed to withstand some movement.  
not a bad idea about the compact flash though... i could use that and 
system RAM for the main OS, then have a laptop drive that holds media, 
that way it wouldn't be spinning nearly as much. 

-chris


Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.12/.f
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> Unfortunately, the m-100 is *just* too wide to fit in a standard stereo slot.
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> ext2 noatime,sync is recommended for compactflash filesystems, I
> think... I've found CF cards to vary wildly for performance, a 512MB I
> have is achingly slow compared to a 256MB that's officially rated as
> slower.  Haven't figured that one out yet...
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> I would think if you used someting Knoppix-like you could have pretty
> much everything you wanted on the CF, except the music... spin the
> hard drive up only to load the next 5 mp3's or so from the playlist
> into RAM.  Ideally you'd add an accelerometer so you knew not to spin
> it up during jouncing, of course.
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> There are also things like the StompBox, but the CPUs are a bit slow
> for my tastes...
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> --DTVZ
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