Upgrading To Faster Cf Card

[iamasmith]

OK, I have taken the plunge and ordered a SanDisk Extreme III CF card (133x card) that has ~20MB/sec Read and Write speeds with the intention of replacing my internal 4Gb Microdrive on my Zaurus.

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1182)...tFlash_4GB.aspx

I chose this card because it seems to offer good value for money (about £140 GBP in the UK now), top performance, and a 10 year manufacturers warranty.

Note that there is a Transcend 8Gb card also available for about the same price now, however, the warranty isn't lifetime it is 1,000,000 write cycles and the operational temperature is lower.. I decided to err on the side of caution therefore and go with this card which is known to have write spreading technologies and may yield a considerably longer life (maybe).

I also didn't need the 8Gb version because all my Multimedia stuff is on my iPod.. I prefer to do it this way then at least when the battery is dead from listening to music and watching movies I still have my Zaurus

I believe the write levelling on this card will probably (even with constant running) see out the life of this Zaurus but I guess that only remains to be seen.

When the card arrives I will do some benchmarks and provide some information on runtime with both the original Microdrive and this card fitted since the power consumption is also supposed to be a fraction of the Microdrive.

Benchmarks will probably come first since I can perform those with the card in the additional CF slot.

but daaaaamn, I'm going to ruin my 'uptime' figures. I get disappointed if I have to reboot it more than once per month

More soon,

-Andy

(btw. in case you are wondering why I have been quiet here it's because my Zaurus 'just works ' and does everything I need it to at the moment... currently it's even running Ruby on Rails with MYSQL - it will be nice to see what performance is like with the new drive for this)

[chuckr]

OK, I have taken the plunge and ordered a SanDisk Extreme III CF card (seems to be a 120x card although this isn't explicitely stated) that has ~20MB/sec Read and Write speeds with the intention of replacing my internal 4Gb Microdrive on my Zaurus.

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1182)...tFlash_4GB.aspx

I chose this card because it seems to offer good value for money (about £140 GBP in the UK now), top performance, and a 10 year manufacturers warranty.

Note that there is a Transcend 8Gb card also available for about the same price now, however, the warranty isn't lifetime it is 1,000,000 write cycles and the operational temperature is lower.. I decided to err on the side of caution therefore and go with this card which is known to have write spreading technologies and may yield a considerably longer life (maybe).

I also didn't need the 8Gb version because all my Multimedia stuff is on my iPod.. I prefer to do it this way then at least when the battery is dead from listening to music and watching movies I still have my Zaurus

I believe the write levelling on this card will probably (even with constant running) see out the life of this Zaurus but I guess that only remains to be seen.

When the card arrives I will do some benchmarks and provide some information on runtime with both the original Microdrive and this card fitted since the power consumption is also supposed to be a fraction of the Microdrive.

Benchmarks will probably come first since I can perform those with the card in the additional CF slot.

but daaaaamn, I'm going to ruin my 'uptime' figures. I get disappointed if I have to reboot it more than once per month

More soon,

-Andy

(btw. in case you are wondering why I have been quiet here it's because my Zaurus 'just works ' and does everything I need it to at the moment... currently it's even running Ruby on Rails with MYSQL - it will be nice to see what performance is like with the new drive for this)
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I'm very interested here, because I just finished doing all the spelunking into my own SL-C3000, and I feel ready (hardware-wise) to begin replacing my own hard disk.  I've chosen a 8 Gb Seagate hark disk (I found one for about $140, which seemed about $40 too expensive, but no one else seemed to have it at all).  That's a whale of a lot cheaper than a 8Gb flash would be, I think it's more reliable, and I haven't checked the speed, but isn't the hard disk faster than a huge flash like that?  Since I can't even hear my present hard disk, and the Seagate is spec'ed at no louder, I figure that the flash and the hard disk are both effectively silent in running, right?

[iamasmith]

Somebody on the openbsd.org mailing lists mentioned that they got errors with the 8Gb Seagate Microdrives and suggested that it may be a power issue... They ended up reutilising the 8Gb drive in something else.

The goal of this exercise really is performance and battery life, however, I shall document the replacement process and liberally add photos.

-Andy

[fquindos]

I'm very interested in your findings. I've just measured my 3200 battery life today, and got the same results: 4 h. uptime (9:29 - 13:29) with the lid closed and the wifi card connected. I used a cron job to log the apm status each minute. Apm showed a 100% for an hour, 95% for five minutes and 91% the rest of the time :-)

Have you measured charging time? For me, it takes many hours (12, maybe, I'm not sure) to get the yellow led off. I charge with OpenBSD running. I'm wondering if this could also improve with a flash card instead of a microdrive.

In the eagerness that I have experienced whilst waiting for the new card (possibly Tuesday this week) I have started to benchmark the existing configuration and I will compare this against the new card when I have it/fit it.

here are the results with the Microdrive...

   ... a few lines ...

-Andy
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[DaemonsGR]

I'm very interested in your findings. I've just measured my 3200 battery life today, and got the same results: 4 h. uptime (9:29 - 13:29) with the lid closed and the wifi card connected. I used a cron job to log the apm status each minute. Apm showed a 100% for an hour, 95% for five minutes and 91% the rest of the time :-)

Have you measured charging time? For me, it takes many hours (12, maybe, I'm not sure) to get the yellow led off. I charge with OpenBSD running. I'm wondering if this could also improve with a flash card instead of a microdrive.

In the eagerness that I have experienced whilst waiting for the new card (possibly Tuesday this week) I have started to benchmark the existing configuration and I will compare this against the new card when I have it/fit it.

here are the results with the Microdrive...

   ... a few lines ...

-Andy
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sorry but wifi uses more power than lan card! test with no wifi and log it every min to a log file

[iamasmith]

Well the card just arrived and I popped it into my Zaurus..

Firstly, a nice surprise, the card is somewhat higher capacity than the Microdrive 4g != 4g it seems

The new card appears to be 8005536 sectors instead of 7999488 like the Microdrive. I wanted to just dd the old installation over so I opted to make wd1a the same size as wd0a and increase my swap space. At the moment the card is running the bonnie++ test. I will then reboot it and dd the image and do a trial boot off the external CF slot.

(it does mean of course that I can't backup the whole CF card with dd but I can still dd wd0a->wd1a with Microdrive in the external slot later)

[iamasmith]

all went well finally, man it's a swine to get some of the screws out and there is a nice little 'requires soldering iron' part that nobody mentions.

There is actually a copper foil earth strap near the IR transceiver that on some units is a longer wire. If you have a unit with the longer wire you can get the board out.. if you have a unit with the copper foil (like mine) you must unsolder it and resolder later.

My dd though seems to have overwritten the drive parameters with the Microdrive ones and although the unit 'looks good' and is definitely fast the disklabel reports Microdrive label and stats.

I have just reinitialised the drive and am now using cp -Rp to transfer the OpenBSD installation from the Microdrive to the SanDisk card... more later.

-Andy

[albertr]

Cool, please let us know how does it fire up against the microdrive.
P.S. My C1000 didn't have copper foil...
-albertr

[iamasmith]

Will do as soon as it has finished copying (full set of tests as previously documented).

If you take a look at this pic..

http://photos4.flickr.com/7220418_4f9406c0ce_b.jpg

(from the original Japanese disassembly site) you can see that the 3000 has a wire strap (top right), whereas on the 1000 in the picture has the Copper Foil (looks like a rectangular copper blob) on the piccy.

It should be noted that I spoke to Trisoft about this asking advice (after taking full responsibility and voiding warranty etc.) they mentioned they tried it with an Ultra II card and had about 1 week of runtime before the card failed... lets hope I get better results than that

-Andy

[albertr]

I see a wire strap on C3000, but It's hard to see anything on that photo... Do you see it here:

http://www.iral.com/~albertr/linux/zaurus/wireless/back.jpg

-albertr

[iamasmith]

Ok here are the results so far, only just started the battery test so we will have to see how long that takes.

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Battery life test

Lid closed, using Socket Low Power CF 10/100 Ethernet card run top across remote ssh connection and removed charger cable. Time is measured between power cable being removed and the time that the time stops on the top display.

Microdrive: 4 hours runtime. +/- ~3 mins

SanDisk 4Gb Extreme III: again 4 hours runtime almost exactly

Disk Labels..

Microdrive:

# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 7999425
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: HMS360404D5CF00
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 7936
total sectors: 7999488
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#             size        offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:       7737281            63  4.2BSD   2048 16384  328 # Cyl     0*-  7675*
  b:        262144       7737344    swap                   # Cyl  7675*-  7935
  c:       7999488             0  unused      0     0      # Cyl     0 -  7935

SanDisk 4Gb Extreme III:

# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 8005473
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: SanDisk SDCFX-40
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 7942
total sectors: 8005536
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#             size        offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:       7743329            63  4.2BSD   2048 16384  328 # Cyl     0*-  7681*
  b:        262144       7743392    swap                   # Cyl  7681*-  7941
  c:       8005536             0  unused      0     0      # Cyl     0 -  7941
mungo#

Observations, note that the Sandisk card is slightly larger than the the Microdrive.


Bonnie++ disk performance test

Microdrive:

Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
mungo.chili.lo 300M  2223  31  2297  11  1221  18  1939  93  2256  71  31.6   3
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1252  48  8291 100  3263  51  1279  45  8345  99  1622  26

SanDisk 4Gb Extreme III:

Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
mungo.chili.lo 300M  3162  98  3902  91  1498  95  1905  97  2414  99 100.5  17
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1329  43  9492  99  4118  64  1499  53  8321  95  2869  48

A considerable boost in # of operations a second, particularly random operations (as anticipated).

Loading and subjective performance tests of overcommit and swap (swap is to a 128Mb swap partition rather than into a file within the ffs filesystem)

Initial process snapshot..

load averages:  0.18,  0.10,  0.09                                     14:35:43
15 processes:  14 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
Memory: Real: 6524K/20M act/tot  Free: 38M  Swap: 0K/128M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
 5398 root       2    0 3164K 2096K idle     netio    0:00  0.44% sshd
 3524 root       2    0 1096K 1652K sleep    select   1:51  0.00% sendmail
15880 root       2    0  532K 1416K idle     select   0:14  0.00% sshd
15415 root       2    0  408K  712K idle     select   0:06  0.00% cron
15487 _syslogd   2    0  268K  604K sleep    poll     0:08  0.00% syslogd
10292 root       2    0  156K  580K idle     kqread   0:00  0.00% apmd
  784 andrews    3    0  480K  400K sleep    ttyin    0:00  0.00% ksh
26489 root       2    0  232K  616K idle     select   0:00  0.00% inetd
    1 root      10    0  396K  264K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% init
  515 root       2    0  240K  532K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% syslogd
10688 andrews   28    0  320K 1092K onproc   -        0:00  0.00% top
22573 andrews    2    0 3164K 1720K sleep    select   0:00  0.00% sshd
19317 root       3    0  192K  640K idle     ttyin    0:00  0.00% getty
13301 root      -6    0  148K  528K idle     htplev   0:00  0.00% hotplugd
25241 andrews   18    0  476K  396K sleep    pause    0:00  0.00% ksh

Time taken to arrive at full xfce4 interface with following process list (from hitting return at startxfce4 line).

Microdrive: 1 min 20 seconds

SanDisk 4Gb Extreme III: 1 min exactly

load averages:  0.88,  0.42,  0.21                                     14:38:19
28 processes:  1 running, 26 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states: 10.0% user,  0.0% nice,  2.2% system,  0.0% interrupt, 87.8% idle
Memory: Real: 37M/52M act/tot  Free: 6348K  Swap: 0K/128M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
23173 andrews   30    0 4744K   13M run      -        0:14 21.83% xfce4-panel
24097 andrews    2    0 5456K 8512K sleep    select   0:08  3.66% Xorg
 2985 andrews    2    0 1604K 7256K sleep    poll     0:03  1.56% xfdesktop
29168 andrews    2    0 1684K 7384K sleep    poll     0:04  1.27% xfwm4
25483 andrews    2    0  828K 5720K sleep    poll     0:01  0.49% xftaskbar4
 3826 andrews    2    0  756K 5492K sleep    poll     0:03  0.20% xfce4-session
21582 andrews    2    0 1212K 4984K sleep    poll     0:01  0.20% xfce-mcs-mana
22779 andrews    2    0  628K 2168K sleep    poll     0:05  0.05% xscreensaver
 3524 root       2    0 1096K 1652K sleep    select   1:51  0.00% sendmail
15880 root       2    0  532K 1416K idle     select   0:14  0.00% sshd
15415 root       2    0  408K  712K sleep    select   0:06  0.00% cron
15487 _syslogd   2    0  268K  604K sleep    poll     0:08  0.00% syslogd
 5398 root       2    0 3164K 2096K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% sshd
10688 andrews   28    0  392K 1112K onproc   -        0:00  0.00% top
10292 root       2    0  156K  580K sleep    kqread   0:00  0.00% apmd
22573 andrews    2    0 3164K 1720K sleep    select   0:00  0.00% sshd
  784 andrews   18    0  480K  400K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% ksh
 2644 andrews   10    0  220K  992K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% xinit
26489 root       2    0  232K  616K idle     select   0:00  0.00% inetd
    1 root      10    0  396K  264K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% init
  515 root       2    0  240K  532K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% syslogd
28389 andrews   18    0  480K  400K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
19317 root       3    0  192K  640K idle     ttyin    0:00  0.00% getty
13301 root      -6    0  148K  528K idle     htplev   0:00  0.00% hotplugd
25241 andrews   18    0  476K  396K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% ksh
10947 andrews    2    0 1772K  792K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% Xorg
13201 andrews   18    0  472K  356K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
   18 andrews    2    0  276K  616K idle     select   0:00  0.00% ssh-agent
  
Time taken to arrive at AbiWord (all screen parts painted) loaded with GB dictionary support enabled (from selecting icon from xfce4 panel).

Microdrive: 48 seconds

SanDisk 4Gb Extreme III: 40 seconds

load averages:  0.82,  0.56,  0.30                                     14:40:54
29 processes:  28 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states: 12.8% user,  0.0% nice,  3.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 83.8% idle
Memory: Real: 32M/57M act/tot  Free: 1220K  Swap: 2052K/128M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
17282 andrews    2    0 8444K   15M sleep    poll     0:25 14.06% AbiWord-2.4
23173 andrews    2    0 4884K   11M sleep    poll     0:31  9.03% xfce4-panel
24097 andrews    2    0 5632K 5428K sleep    select   0:16  5.62% Xorg
25483 andrews    2    0 1624K 7168K idle     poll     0:04  0.78% xftaskbar4
22779 andrews    2    0  628K 1568K sleep    poll     0:05  0.10% xscreensaver
 2985 andrews    2    0 1628K 5816K sleep    poll     0:03  0.05% xfdesktop
 3524 root       2    0 1096K 1044K sleep    select   1:51  0.00% sendmail
15880 root       2    0  532K  448K idle     select   0:14  0.00% sshd
15415 root       2    0  408K  620K idle     select   0:06  0.00% cron
29168 andrews    2    0 1748K 6708K idle     poll     0:05  0.00% xfwm4
15487 _syslogd   2    0  268K  540K idle     poll     0:08  0.00% syslogd
 3826 andrews    2    0  756K 4508K idle     poll     0:03  0.00% xfce4-session
21582 andrews    2    0 1212K 4128K sleep    poll     0:02  0.00% xfce-mcs-mana
 5398 root       2    0 3164K  628K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% sshd
10688 andrews   28    0  392K  972K onproc   -        0:00  0.00% top
22573 andrews    2    0 3164K 1064K sleep    select   0:00  0.00% sshd
10292 root       2    0  156K  476K idle     kqread   0:00  0.00% apmd
  784 andrews   18    0  480K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% ksh
 2644 andrews   10    0  220K  780K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% xinit
26489 root       2    0  232K  464K idle     select   0:00  0.00% inetd
    1 root      10    0  396K    8K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% init
  515 root       2    0  240K  340K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% syslogd
28389 andrews   18    0  480K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
19317 root       3    0  192K  476K idle     ttyin    0:00  0.00% getty
13301 root      -6    0  148K  432K idle     htplev   0:00  0.00% hotplugd
25241 andrews   18    0  476K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% ksh
10947 andrews    2    0 1772K  420K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% Xorg
13201 andrews   18    0  472K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
   18 andrews    2    0  276K  324K idle     select   0:00  0.00% ssh-agent
  
AbiWord now unloaded and mysqlcc loaded from an aterm to produce the following (overcommited) process list.

load averages:  0.95,  0.67,  0.36                                     14:42:40
31 processes:  2 running, 28 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states: 13.4% user,  0.0% nice,  6.5% system,  0.0% interrupt, 80.1% idle
Memory: Real: 34M/57M act/tot  Free: 1116K  Swap: 7300K/128M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
23173 andrews   30    0 4884K 7728K run      -        0:42  9.67% xfce4-panel
 9235 andrews    2    0 4212K   10M idle     poll     0:10  9.23% mysqlcc
24097 andrews   29    0 5968K 6528K run      -        0:23  5.96% Xorg
22779 andrews    2    0  628K 1592K sleep    poll     0:05  0.59% xscreensaver
25483 andrews    2    0 1624K 6360K idle     poll     0:05  0.05% xftaskbar4
 3524 root       2    0 1096K 1044K sleep    select   1:52  0.00% sendmail
15880 root       2    0  532K  448K idle     select   0:14  0.00% sshd
15415 root       2    0  408K  492K idle     select   0:06  0.00% cron
29168 andrews    2    0 1760K 5724K idle     poll     0:05  0.00% xfwm4
15487 _syslogd   2    0  268K  516K sleep    poll     0:08  0.00% syslogd
 2985 andrews    2    0 1624K 4664K sleep    poll     0:04  0.00% xfdesktop
 3826 andrews    2    0  756K 4184K idle     poll     0:04  0.00% xfce4-session
21582 andrews    2    0 1212K 4356K sleep    poll     0:02  0.00% xfce-mcs-mana
10688 andrews   28    0  392K  968K onproc   -        0:00  0.00% top
 5398 root       2    0 3164K  628K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% sshd
16568 andrews    2    0  560K 1904K idle     select   0:00  0.00% aterm
22573 andrews    2    0 3164K 1064K sleep    select   0:00  0.00% sshd
10292 root       2    0  156K  476K idle     kqread   0:00  0.00% apmd
  784 andrews   18    0  480K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% ksh
 2644 andrews   10    0  220K  780K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% xinit
 3543 andrews    3    0  484K  400K idle     ttyin    0:00  0.00% ksh
    1 root      10    0  396K   68K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% init
26489 root       2    0  232K  464K idle     select   0:00  0.00% inetd
  515 root       2    0  240K  340K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% syslogd
28389 andrews   18    0  480K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
19317 root       3    0  192K  476K idle     ttyin    0:00  0.00% getty
13301 root      -6    0  148K  432K idle     htplev   0:00  0.00% hotplugd
25241 andrews   18    0  476K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% ksh
10947 andrews    2    0 1772K  420K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% Xorg
13201 andrews   18    0  472K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
   18 andrews    2    0  276K  324K idle     select   0:00  0.00% ssh-agent
  
mysqld_safe loaded from vt02, time taken before database responsive in mysqlcc GUI previously loaded.

Microdrive: 1 min 40 seconds
SanDisk 4Gb Extreme III: 55 seconds.

load averages:  0.85,  0.75,  0.45                                     14:45:34
33 processes:  32 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states: 11.6% user,  0.0% nice,  4.1% system,  0.0% interrupt, 84.4% idle
Memory: Real: 30M/56M act/tot  Free: 1428K  Swap: 17M/128M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
23173 andrews    2    0 4884K 5432K sleep    poll     1:01 10.21% xfce4-panel
24097 andrews    2    0 6008K 4272K sleep    select   0:32  4.10% Xorg
 9235 andrews    2    0 4496K 7916K sleep    poll     0:16  2.98% mysqlcc
 4900 _mysql     2    0   26M   10M sleep    poll     0:03  0.05% mysqld
 3524 root       2    0 1096K  704K sleep    select   1:52  0.00% sendmail
15880 root       2    0  532K    8K idle     select   0:14  0.00% sshd
15415 root       2    0  408K  392K idle     select   0:06  0.00% cron
29168 andrews    2    0 1760K 1532K sleep    poll     0:05  0.00% xfwm4
22779 andrews    2    0  628K  776K sleep    poll     0:05  0.00% xscreensaver
25483 andrews    2    0 1624K 1328K sleep    poll     0:05  0.00% xftaskbar4
15487 _syslogd   2    0  268K  280K sleep    poll     0:08  0.00% syslogd
 2985 andrews    2    0 1624K 1944K sleep    poll     0:04  0.00% xfdesktop
 3826 andrews    2    0  756K 1320K sleep    poll     0:04  0.00% xfce4-session
21582 andrews    2    0 1212K 1404K sleep    poll     0:02  0.00% xfce-mcs-mana
10688 andrews   28    0  392K  696K onproc   -        0:01  0.00% top
19317 root      18    0  508K   12K idle     pause    0:01  0.00% ksh
 5398 root       2    0 3164K    8K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% sshd
16568 andrews    2    0  560K    8K idle     select   0:00  0.00% aterm
22573 andrews    2    0 3164K  608K sleep    select   0:00  0.00% sshd
23810 root      18    0  496K   12K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
10292 root       2    0  156K    8K idle     kqread   0:00  0.00% apmd
  784 andrews   18    0  480K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% ksh
 2644 andrews   10    0  220K    8K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% xinit
 3543 andrews    3    0  484K    8K idle     ttyin    0:00  0.00% ksh
    1 root      10    0  396K    8K idle     wait     0:00  0.00% init
26489 root       2    0  232K    8K idle     select   0:00  0.00% inetd
  515 root       2    0  240K    8K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% syslogd
28389 andrews   18    0  480K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
13301 root      -6    0  148K    8K idle     htplev   0:00  0.00% hotplugd
25241 andrews   18    0  476K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% ksh
10947 andrews    2    0 1772K    8K idle     netio    0:00  0.00% Xorg
13201 andrews   18    0  472K    8K idle     pause    0:00  0.00% sh
   18 andrews    2    0  276K    8K idle     select   0:00  0.00% ssh-agent
-Andy

[iamasmith]

I'll do my pics soon which shows what I mean about the copper foil strap.

[iamasmith]

Here's the card replacement walkthrough..

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?act=S...t=0#entry129173

[iamasmith]

Full results are now posted above... interestingly whilst idling (disk runs constantly) on OpenBSD the battery life is almost exactly the same with this card.

-Andy

[fquindos]

Really strange. Always 4 hours exactly. I'm testing battery life in my 3200 this time with no CF card attached. I'm wondering if the battery is really empty and is not possible to start the unit without powering it. Or if after powering the unit just enough to start it, battery runs for hours (4 again?). This smells to "feature" :-)

Full results are now posted above... interestingly whilst idling (disk runs constantly) on OpenBSD the battery life is almost exactly the same with this card.

-Andy
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