On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Alex wrote:

> Is anyone using a Platypus Technologies  QikDrive 'solid state disk
> drive' with NetBSD?
>
> >From what I can tell, it's a PCI card with a bunch of DIMM slots
> that masquerades as a hard disk.  The obvious thing would be for
> it to just present itself to the BIOS as an IDE controller with a
> small HD attached, but it's not clear to me from their web site
> that that's what they do, and I'm told it comes with "drivers" for
> Linux and assorted flavors of Windows, which set off some alarm
> bells.  So thought It would be wise to check and see if anyone has
> any actual experience with one.  They're at http://www.platypus.net

	Looks like you could be onto a loser there - the drivers appear
	to all be binary only, including linux and freebsd.

	If you are interested I'd be inclined to contact them and
	ask about their plans for a NetBSD driver. If enough people ask...

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