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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Samual Acorn wrote:
> > > Why?  Linux seems to survive crashes.
> >
> > well.... this wouldnt exactly be a 'normal' crash... this
> > would be a slow meltdown... a creep-in of memory corruption
> > (and most likely harddrive corruption)...
> > the bad part is the harddrive will be the first to go due
> > to it being the biggest power sucker in a laptop
>
> One way to minimize the corruption would be to run Linux
> from a ramdisk and put the HD in sleep mode after booting.
> Or, better yet, unplug the HD altogether and boot the
> ramdisk from floppies.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven


We have BL3 running on memory card (in a camera with USB cable) or USB 
memory stick.  These use less power.  Would a crash damage them?

Sindi