CF card as hard drive?

[chiark]

Just a thought about this "limited write cycle" stuff on CF cards, or indeed any flash memory.

I have been "reliably" informed that the majority of cards are sensible in their dealing with bad blocks, and dynamically map bad blocks/exhausted blocks out of the available space, and use another sector.

I haven't tested this :-) , but a quick google suggests there's plenty of technologies punting this sort of behaviour.

Personally, I'd use a microdrive for this sort of thing.  The 2.2gb microdrive lookalike from Magicstor is always cheap.

[chiark]

probably wouldn't want to put something like a swapfile on one

Agreed :-)

Just making the point that it's probably not a *huge* concern for the next fair few years if you do use a decent  CF card

I love that A600 :-) - well pimped ;-)