[Soekris] write protection

[Henry Spencer]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Wim Vandeputte wrote:
> I used a Sony Memory stick, which has a 'lock' feature (I'm not sure if it's a
> real hardware write protection, any comments?) together with a MS->CF
> adapter from Transcend (Memory Stick/CF Adapter "MS2CF")

And a bit more digging (in search of something else entirely!!) unearthed
Verbatim's "Compact Flash Trio" or "CompactTrio" adapter (part no. 94447),
which takes Secure Digital, MMC, or MS and goes in a CF slot.  That may be
the answer I was after, although I don't have quite enough information to
tell whether the adapter plus an SD card would fit inside the Soekris box. 
If I don't find anything that looks better, I will find out (and will
report what I discover). 

> MS is basicly a CF medium, I have not found any information yet about the
> lifetime (as in how many writes are possible, Kingston CF lists 1 milion 
> writes but gives "lifetime" warantee). Does anybody actually know?

It's all the same chips, so 1M writes is generally plausible.  A better
question is whether MS is smart enough to support things like wear
leveling, which CF does but other flash formats don't.  That, I don't
know. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry at spsystems.net