Ben Barrett wrote: > ...that's what I thought you meant. Well, you can have that today! > Just put in the IDE-CF adapter, and the "special" magical mystery memory > is a CF that you boot from. It is "programmable" as you call it, > meaning you can write a new OS to it, and it is nonvolatile. > The problem with using a DIMM socket for this, as I see it, is that > today's motherboards (and yesterday's) are created to handle RAM and > drives, but not either on the other's interface! So, to do this you put > CF on the *IDE* interface, and RAM on the *memory* interface.
Even better, flash Linux onto your BIOS. The BIOS is also nonvolatile memory, and it's directly addressable from the CPU. That's what the LinuxBIOS project is all about. With a Linux BIOS and a CF root drive, you could have a 100% solid state Linux box. > Can anyone speak at greater length about this? Is it the North bridge? > (The south bridge handles PCI, right? or does it also do the IDE?) Not me. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
