On 2/14/07, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You could use their 7506-4LP card for this. However, I think that this would be overkill and the price of the card is > $200, and you would also need 4 short IDE cables and 4 IDE to CompactFlash adapters ($10-20 each) My idea is for a card that can only do one thing. Use SD cards directly and stripe the cards so that they look like a wider card.
I'd much rather see a card that used a generic 10/100 ethernet chip for network access, and presented a simple web or SSH interface allowing an authenticated user to tell the card to present itself as a bootable IDE controller with attached hard drive or CD-ROM to the host system. Bonus points for pretending to be a graphics card as well, and exporting the BIOS setup screen out over the network connection, ala the PC Weasel: http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html Essentially, the ability to remote boot and install an OS on bare hardware, without need for media (an ISO on an FTP server, samba share, etc should work). It seems to me that the easiest way to build such a beast would be to make it a small embedded Linux system - 50Mhz would work... doesn't have to be fast. 8 or 16Mb ram. Just enough to boot a kernel, and run dropbear SSH, thttpd, etc. Along the same lines as a linux-based wireless router. --tim _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
