speeding up disk-based laptop by moving /usr to flash?

[Tom Metro]

Richard Pieri wrote:
> The PCMCIA bus runs at about 1/3 the theoretical maximum speed of the
> internal disk bay (assuming UDMA Mode 4) so while you'll save on
> latency you will lose big on throughput.

Is there only one drive bay in that machine? If there are two, the OP 
could try connecting the CF card with an adapter directly to the disk 
controller.

  -Tom

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