Howdy Erich, On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 17:30 +0200, Erich Titl wrote: > Hi Ralph > > Ralph Green schrieb: > > Howdy, > > I was reading some older posts in this mailing list and I found > > references to people using diskonchip modules. I have a few thin client > > machines I would like to setup. This is all stuff I am doing for free > > for myself and friends. This is not a business. The Neoware and HP > > machines have these diskonchip modules in sizes from 64 meg to 256 meg. > > That should be plenty of room for a leaf setup to act as an accesspoint > > or firewall. My problem is that I don't see how to program them. They > > have 44 pin female headers. I find adapters to let me plug 2.5 inch > > drives into a desktop PC and those expect male headers. > > On the sourceforge page for this project, it suggests looking in the > > FAQ and logging onto irc. But, it also says the FAQ page is disabled > > for this project and the irc is not active. So, if there is another > > place I should be asking this or looking it up, please just tell me > > that. > > This is less of a LEAF than a hardware issue. If your DOMs behave like > an ordinary IDE disk then the question is how to connect them to a > standard system to write the software to them. I recall having had the > same issue once. I must admit, I just abandoned that DOM, seeing that > ordinary DOM's did cost a fraction of the price of the adapter. Unless > you really want to go that way, I would suggest to find a cheap IDE to > CF adapter. Compact Flash of small sizes can be found in heaps. Are you > sure you have a 2.5 inch interface and not a 1.8 inch which has 50 pins > and is typically female. > > cheers > > Erich > Both the HP and the Neoware boxes are similar in their ide configuration. The motherboards have only one ide connector. It is a 44 pin connector with male pins on the motherboard. I have the removed diskonmodule devices right in front of me and they are definitely 44 pins. There is no proper place inside to mount a hard drive, so getting the systems to boot off the diskonmodules will work best. I can plug a laptop drive onto the connector with the case apart and boot them. But, if I boot that way, I can't have the diskonmodule plugged in to reflash it. I put a CF card to laptop ide adapter in one of these and it does work. But, since there is no proper place to mount the drive, it is just a big box laying inside the PC. I put it into the box, because I did not want two electrical things touching each other, but I am not sure this is along term safe idea either. I do see that my question is a hardware issue, and not directly a LEAF issue. But, I had been reading about LEAF, since it is a system I want to try for these devices and I ran across some old messages on the mailing list talking about these modules. It seems like a related issue to me, since it is about how I can use LEAF. I will cease asking about it, if the consensus here is that I should. Thank you for your time, Ralph
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