[mythtv-users] CF mythfrontend recommendations

[Roy Lofthouse]

On 8 August 2011 13:33, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Fernando Ruza Rodriguez <ffrr12 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> El dom, 07-08-2011 a las 13:06 -0400, Raymond Wagner escribió:
>> > On 8/7/2011 12:46, Fernando Ruza Rodriguez wrote:
>> > > I'm going to install a Mythtv frontend with Debian Linux in a 2GB
>> > > Compact Flash. I'm going to follow the recommendations it says here,
>> > > in
>> > > the section linux tuning:
>> > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Compact_Flash_boot_drive
>> > >
>> > > Does anyone have anymore recommendations for this kind of
>> > > installation ??
>> >
>> > You need a CF card, a CF-PATA adapter, and a PATA-SATA controller.  Why
>> > not just get an SSD?
>>
>> Because I already had all of that: Transced CF 2GB 300x and addonics
>> CF-SATA Adapter:
>> http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adsacf.asp
>>
>> It is an old mythtv frontend I did 3 years ago and 2 months ago the CF
>> memory was broken that's why I'm asking for the CF recommendations to
>> see if now I can make its life longer.
>
> I recently moved from a CF to an SSD installation.  I had no problems with
> the CF but I found 8GB to be too small so I'm not sure what success you will
> have with 2GB.  It was as cheap for me to buy a 30GB SSD as to get a large
> CF card...
> Kevin
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minimyth supports mythtv frontend from compact flash (loads to memory
so reduces reads etc).

Used it for a couple of years before moving to minimyth via PXE.