Re: Gigabyte i-Ram cards

[Mogens Valentin <mogensv@vip.cybercity.dk>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> I'm impressed.  I ordered one to help debug BZ#6163, but I think these 
> cards will help expose bugs in libata due to their high speed.  With 
> these cards, we can push more data through libata than would normally be 
> possible with a standard disk drive.
 >
> ...I just like the gadget.

I was thinking.. Someone on the Xen list suggested using suspend/resume 
for dom0 systems. Now, doing that to an i-Ram card would be nice.
I do some systems integration, and when AMD releases their Pacifica 
cpu's /and/ decent graphics (GLX/openGL based, I think it'll be) gets 
working in Xen, I could imagine having XP and/or W2K3 sleeping on such a 
card, for almost instant wakeup for a quick test.
Mind you, I don't live my life with those OSs, fortunately

If only they'd make them for more than 4GB ram.. maybe that'll change 
when AMD starts pumping DDR2-based cpu's into the market, so both [AMD 
and Intel] will be using DDR2, and prices may go down.

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Kind regards,
Mogens Valentin