Re: Re SRAM Cards

Warren H. Minix (minix@inet.net)
Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:14:57 -0500

I have noticed a slight difference in battery life with a SRAM card, but
not quite the kind of hit that you guys seem to have.
When I borrowed a flash card I noticed a dramatic power drain as well as
performance degradation from the read/writes.
As I am using rechargeable alkalines, it has not been a big deal for
myself. It is more than offset by the convenience of having installed a
pcmcia slot on one of my PCs, I can just pop the card out back everything
up in seconds and have total
access to all of the files just like it was a regular drive.
This way even if things get to the point that I have to completely clear
the OGO's memory (shift-on-next +C)
I just wrote a small batch file that will copy an INI file to the B: drive
to get things back to normal in minutes. It allows me to tweak with things
until I break it with nor great risk ;)

Warren H. Minix
AES
PO Box 411
Rockland, DE 19732-0411
USA

minix@inet.net
http://inet.net/~minix

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> From: Alessandro Valente <VALENTE@unisi.it>
> Date: Sunday, December 01, 1996 13:01
>
>
> >>
> >> What you need to do is to get a file management program and not
> >> only copy the files to the SRAM card, but delete them from the
> >> Omnigo native RAM. Be sure to copy the files to the exact same
> >> directory structure as is found in native RAM.
> >>
> >> Doing a back-up copy to SRAM won't allow you to expand your
> >> usable memory for your files.
> >>
> >> Wes Jan
> >
> >I want to comment on using the SRAM card as the primary storage medium.
> >When I first got the OGO, I would copy the application data files onto
> >C:, and delete them from B: ( You must remove the card, and start up the
> >file manager to do this. Also, the applications must all be closed, it
> >won't let you delete a file in use.) Then the apps would read and
> >write the SRAM card instead of RAM. However cool this seemed, it sucked
> >batteries dry real fast. I used a pair of $7 lithiums up in a week,
> >with about 2 hours of use per day.
> >
> >I would recommend running the most commonly used apps from RAM, and
> >moving less often used ones to the SRAM.
> >
>
> You're right!
> I stated this in programming with IZL which was on my SRAM card.
> A pair of Duracell lasts two days caused by continuing swap between the
text
> editor and the IZL compiler ....
>
> Bye!
>
>