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So with 1 & 2 NOT being an issue, can enough cache be freed to be useful for other tasks?

Or maybe the question should be, "What is the minimum amount of cache needed when using CF drives?"


Probably about a megabyte or so; not verified.

One thing I noticed on our recent 3000km road trip, was that my 16MB player running v3alpha-11 s/w frequently never "spun down" the CF cards when playing high bitrate mp3 files. I probably have an unintended "ReserveCache=xx" line in there, copied by mistake from my 32MB player.

CF cards would be similarly suitable for FLAC playback, as that also never "spins down" the drives in use. But the cards need to get bigger first.

Cheers