Re: [iPAQ] Low Battery Data Backup

how is everyone powering off their system into any type of battery save
mode? I can't seem to get anything other than just setting the
brightness
to the lowest degree. I am guessing this is part of the power
management
that isn't finished yet. I just set up ppp and a few other things to
day
and I just don't want to lose it when I pack up and head home.

Bill Warner

> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Cpt_Kirks wrote:
> > Since a certain amount (3MB+ ?) of flash will be available to write to, this
> > could be used to save valuable data in RAM in case of a low battery.
> At the early stages of development you will for sure be able to judge manually
> which data is valuable and which is not. But how shall the system do this later
> on?
>
> > The power management software under development could write certain
> > directories to an area in flash set aside.
> Which should that be?
>
> > Hopefully nobody will let their battery die more than 100,000 times. :-)
> To protect your flash from brownout (i.e. too many writes) you should also
> mount it with the noatime option, like
>
> mount -o noatime /dev/flash6 /mnt
>
> to reduce the flash writes even further.
> I would suspect that noone is interested in last access times on the iPaq ;)
>
> > Tom
> CU
> nils faerber
>
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