I was wishing I had a slick way to boot a generic PC from a flash-disk, and browsing throgh a computer catalog when I wacky idea hit me. They had pictures of NIC cards with the classic DIP socket for the boot ROM, and I was wondering about putting a Disk-On-Chip device in one of these sockets.
It would probably only work with particular cards, and may require some firmware mods to the DOC (possible now that there's an open-source driver), but it's at least possible it could work. The biggest problem could be a write line for the DOC part, since I don't know how many (if any) NIC's would ever expect to write the boot-prom, or put a flash part there instead of a ROM. Hopefully nothing a bit of wire and solder can't fix... I'm getting some 3Com 905B's to possibly test this with...anyone got suggestions for other common server/router class network cards with a DIP socket? My favorite netgear cards have a PLCC socket for the boot-rom :( Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
