Hi Christopher,

>> is there any linux driver that makes it possible to use an flash drive
>> like an USB stick as cache for the disks?
>
> /Not/ a good idea. Flash memory has a very limited number of writes
> available, and would quickly become unusable. It's also /very/ slow
> compared to your system memory.

performance isn't a problem ... 1 GHz PIII and slow IDE drives ...
As I read a good USB2 flash has 40 MBit/s read


> Buy some more memory for your machine, and allocate some RAM disks. You
> can
> use one for swap and another for disk cache, if you want.

I've 1 GB SDRAM inside ... more does the mainboard not support ...

How to configure a disk cache on RAM disk?
Maybe i can set up the flash-cache the same way.


Thank you :-))