On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Hamish Guthrie (Mail Lists) wrote: > I think the DoC mess is here to stay, there is one potential solution if > people are insisting on having DoC, and that is to make up a little board > which plugs into a BIOS socket which has both a 256k flash device and a > little bit of decode logic for a DoC, as well as a DoC - if anyone is > interested in this approach, I could knock together a few prototypes for a > couple of $'s, but I have my reservations as to this being a permanent > long-term solution for production systems. >
I was not clear but what I want is something that works for long-term production systems. It seems that DoC is unsuitable in the long term due to DoC limitations and M-systems lousy attitude. I'm thinking in terms of what a company like cwlinux.com could ship to users. The IDE-FLASH would have to be either slave on the primary channel or master on the secondary channel. But wouldn't a slow IDE-FLASH on either channel make the other device run slowly? I thought this used to be the rule -- the IDE bus ran only as fast as the slowest device? ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
