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Peter
I am a PPL/IR private pilot, running various GPS apps (notably
Jeppesen Flitedeck) on a Motion LS800 tablet PC.
The hard drive packs up at around 14,000 feet, crashing the unit.
Flash alternatives (I believe it is a 1.8" HD inside) are extremely
costly, around USD 1000 for 8GB, and I wonder how successful it would
be to put in a 4GB SD card (for which there is a slot), put all maps
on that, etc.
The problem is that Windoze itself accesses various bits of the HD
anyway, and does anyone know which bits, and can they be moved to the
SD card?
Has anyone tried this?
I reckon that, as a minimum, one would need to move the windoze
swapfile, and registry, to the SD card.
Once upon a time I had to run
a program called Filemon to monitor disk accesses, to see why an auto
power-down SCSI HD would keep powering back up again, and I found a
registry access every 1 second or so, plus an access (for no apparent
reason) to every fixed HD every few minutes. This was on NT4 though.
XP should be different otherwise a HD auto-power-down would never work
on a laptop or a tablet.
Any suggestions for solutions?
Peter.
Jeppesen Flitedeck) on a Motion LS800 tablet PC.
The hard drive packs up at around 14,000 feet, crashing the unit.
Flash alternatives (I believe it is a 1.8" HD inside) are extremely
costly, around USD 1000 for 8GB, and I wonder how successful it would
be to put in a 4GB SD card (for which there is a slot), put all maps
on that, etc.
The problem is that Windoze itself accesses various bits of the HD
anyway, and does anyone know which bits, and can they be moved to the
SD card?
Has anyone tried this?
I reckon that, as a minimum, one would need to move the windoze
swapfile, and registry, to the SD card.
Once upon a time I had to run
a program called Filemon to monitor disk accesses, to see why an auto
power-down SCSI HD would keep powering back up again, and I found a
registry access every 1 second or so, plus an access (for no apparent
reason) to every fixed HD every few minutes. This was on NT4 though.
XP should be different otherwise a HD auto-power-down would never work
on a laptop or a tablet.
Any suggestions for solutions?
Peter.