Re: 5gb PCMCIA hard drives and familiar?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 08:35:22PM -0700, Sean J. Schluntz wrote:
>
> Speeking of which, when you have power plugged in to either the backpack, or
> the iPaq apm reports the system is attached to ac. So does the backpack
> charge from the cradel w/o being plugged in? I havn't tested this but it
> would make building a power pack easer.

Yep, it does.

>
> Isn't the file system used by Familier a JFS? Familier has a kernel module
> for reiserfs, one of my friends here in the office has been using that for a
> while on his laptop with no problems (then again we don't make a habit of
> pulling it's battery while running either) that is a JFS that can be used on
> the card.

Hm, good point. I wasn't sure if the JFS familiar uses would work well
with non-solid-state storage, but I'm just tired and not thinking clearly,
since people have been using it with microdrives for some time now.

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