They make compact flash to IDE emulator Cards
for around $30. This makes it so that you can use a compact flash card as a
hard drive. Poop a 2GB compact flash cared in one of them and you should be
good to go with a solid state system. We use them for our payloads on the international
space station.
Alex Madsen
-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Russell Duffy
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:18
PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: disc drives
at altitude?
Yes I did
try it again. This time it didn't even make it to altitude. The first time was
a more leisurely climb rate with 2 on board (maybe ~1000'/min) and it crashed
(blue screen) at 10'300. we descended to below 10K and rebooted then slowly
climbed again and at exactly 10,300' it crashed again. Reboot and again at
exactly 10,300', blue screen again, but then it wouldn't reboot.
Thanks for the
info. It sounds like this is a very real problem, and even if you get a
drive that seems to work, one good bit of turbulence will likely
knock it out. I'd hate to think my GPS was on the verge of failure
all the time, so I guess I'll forget any system that has a HD in it.
Cheers,
Rusty (fortunately,
memory is cheap)