OS4 run from "ROM"?

[Nightcrawler]

I was thinking about OS4 and how I'd like my system to be, and I thought about booting and running the OS itself from CF or similar. Would this be possible? I think hardware-wise it wouldn't be a challenge, but the size of the OS might be?

The idea is that it would be totally silent (I don't like the noise from "new" hard drives. They always sound like they're dying to me) so access times and data transfer isn't such a big deal but the faster the better, of course. And that it would be nice to have a separate device for the OS in case of disaster. And backups...

I'd like one of those little A1 lite boards with OS4 running from CF and the HD(s) doing other stuff. At least I think it's a good idea

But is it feasable? Anything I should be aware of?

[Nightcrawler]

I think I know what you mean  :-P  But would it work hypothetically speaking on the alleged OS4?  
 :-D

-edit: I think I saw something about doing it on an A1200 with a IDE>CF adapter or something, does anyone know if that worked?

[Nightcrawler]

Yes, on the A1200, but is it possible on the new HW?

[Nightcrawler]

Thanks Floid!

That's exactly what I wanted to know. Off to buy stuff now :-)

I guess I could fit my win98 setup on a cf too, and I have an empty IDE slot, do these adapters work with other drives on the chain (is it called a chain with IDE btw?) as master or slave?

-Sorry if I'm being a pain, I'm just really excited about this-

[Nightcrawler]

Sure, like I would trust someone with that avatar  :-D

It's a little big, and it didn't say but I'm ####uming it has moving parts and that's not quite what I was looking for. But hey, if the price is right... It probably isn't, though.

[Nightcrawler]

they sound like ....bad... it seems this noise is only on new hdd's -- kike the ones over 30 gb or something ?` , anyone have a cure?     i really want to get thoose metallic sounds away! really annoying SQUEEEEEEEKing..

Yup. That's the sound right there  ;-)  It's not loud, it just sounds like an "old type" of HD would sound when it gives up and dies :-)

Annoying. Pretty quiet but just loud enough to be annoying...