I hate to be a nag, but are we getting any closer to bootable FusionIO cards?
Cheers, Eric
I wish there was an update on this but for now there isn't anything new to post about boot. I have a message in to see if there is anything new we can share though.
You can add me to the list of people who really want this thing bootable. I already purchased one ioXtreme on launch day, but would like to purchase an ioXtreme Pro as well if they ever become bootable.
i7 920 * 9GB DDR3 * 80GB ioXtreme * 40GB X25-V * XFX HD5970 *
Here's a thought:
boot from a USB stick
on the USB stick is a boot manager
the boot manager points to the FusionIO card installation
Has anyone tried anything like this?
While at work I used one and had an internal flash / usb drive with the boot manager for linux and this did work just fine. this is easy with linux because you can seperate the bootmanager easily. I have not tried it with windows 7 because of the bootmanager.
Thought, use grub on a usb drive as the boot manager that points to the right windows partition on the IO drive... Not sure if it will work.
Technically the way I have my Windows 7 system is that I have two partitions: a 200 MB boot partition, and a 500 GB system partition. The boot partition is hidden (has no drive letter) and is the active partition.
Technically I suppose something like this is possible with the FusionIO card, although don't have one to play with so I cannot test it.
Cool idea Speedy. I hope someone can try it an let us know if it works.
On problem I see is how the Windows Backup would work - would it work?
But this still doesn't let FusionIO off the hook to make their products directly bootable.
Cheers, ERic
Of course, that requires a hard disk, which kinda spoils the fun.
But it seems to me that it would work fine - just have the boot manager point to the Fusion-IO drive installation. I suppose you could make a disk-image copy of your primary partition, lay it down on the Fusion-IO device, point the boot manager to it and reboot. I imagine that the gotcha is that the device is not recognized by the OS in place at the time the boot manager is executing.
Of course, I don't know why it is that the Fusion-IO products are not bootable, much less why they'll only work with 64-bit OSs.
Yes, You are right, boot manager will not see this partition during the boot up at all. It is not even visible in Safe mode. Windows will need the driver loaded to see IOdrive.
Any update, even a vague one, on when these beauties will be bootable?
Sorry, I sincerely wish I could give you some updates. There are some good ideas floating around here and I have talked to some of the guys. I thought I read on here in the past about something someone had tried using Linux. Anyway, hang in there on boot. As soon as we can possibly say anything we will. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to make sure you get the news right away.
In the meantime.. did you guys catch this article?
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/casestudies/
If you can give me instructions on how do this w/ Windows 7 I would gladly give it a try. Currently I keep Windows & the page on a 40GB X25-V then the applications on the ioXtreme. But if I can keep nearly everything on the ioXtreme I would be a very happy man.
Fusion io ive been on your band wagon forever and still am even after reading this post but i got to say OCZ is grabing my attention. everyone that is wanting a bootable drive check this out.
http://hothardware.com/News/Computex-2010-OCZs-Revo-Drive--Affordable-PCIe-SSD-Performance/
Please fusion io take my money and make your drive bootable!!!
Marcus
Sorry to burst your bubble. OCZ's Revo Drive is just a Raid card with 2 SSDs stuck on it. You can can have a better set up by buying these parts seperately. We have to check the latency. I am sure it cannot be as good as IOdrives or IOxtremes.
Please don't get me wrong, I want these cards to be bootable as much as you do.
One of the tech points to the FusionIO products is that they don't have to negotiate the SATA bus. It looks like the Revo would due to its use of SSDs. I'd be very interested to see latency measurements between the two.
Yea i want to see some reviews and benchmarks of these to together and see which ones better. The boot option is just something that needs to be put on the ioxtreme makes no since why it's not on there. I talked to someone here at fusion io a couple months before the drive came out and he said that it would be bootable withing a couple months after its release, well its been a year an some change and still no boot.