Re: Some thoughts: "1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?"

2007-01-25 Thread Pierre Hébert
On Thursday 25 January 2007 16:16, Harald Welte wrote: > The Neo1973 is accessing NAND flash directly via a industry-standard > NAND flash interface, which is a special-purpose interface where you > serially shift in the address and parallel read back of the data. Yes you're right ! Pierre.

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2007-01-25 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Harald! Thank you for your answer - a litte more information like about the technical based flash size of 64MB would avoid some speculations... ;) On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Harald Welte wrote: > If there was a technical way how we could have put larger NAND flash in > the device, we would have d

Re: Some thoughts: "1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?"

2007-01-25 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:10:11AM +0100, Pierre Hébert wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 01:47, Justyn Butler wrote: > > So my answer to your question is: perhaps not from your USB memory > > stick, but you will be able to upgrade the flash chip if you've a > > little experience with

Re: sorry s/FPGA/BGA/g Re: Some thoughts: "1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?"

2007-01-24 Thread Pierre Hébert
Hi ! On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:16, Robert Michel wrote: > > Once I get my hands on one of these babies the first thing I'm going > > to be doing is taking it to pieces, and I can pretty much guarantee > > once we see the flash chip we'll be able to find a compatible > > replacement. But surf

sorry s/FPGA/BGA/g Re: Some thoughts: "1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?"

2007-01-24 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Justyn! Justyn Butler schrieb am Mittwoch, den 24. Januar 2007 um 00:47h: > Firstly apologies if I've misunderstood what you're saying. :) When it' my failing... > But I think it > is: "can I use the flash chip from inside a USB memory stick to upgrade the > neo1973 flash?" yes > Once I ge

Re: Some thoughts: "1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?"

2007-01-24 Thread Pierre Hébert
Hi, On Wednesday 24 January 2007 01:47, Justyn Butler wrote: > So my answer to your question is: perhaps not from your USB memory > stick, but you will be able to upgrade the flash chip if you've a > little experience with surface mount hacking. You cannot simply replace chips like that. The S3C2

Re: Some thoughts: "1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?"

2007-01-23 Thread Justyn Butler
Hi, Firstly apologies if I've misunderstood what you're saying. But I think it is: "can I use the flash chip from inside a USB memory stick to upgrade the neo1973 flash?" Once I get my hands on one of these babies the first thing I'm going to be doing is taking it to pieces, and I can pretty muc

Some thoughts: "1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?"

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Michel
Salve, Just some question and possible answer (I'm no expert): what will be the difference beween the 64MB NAND Flash memory of the Neo and 1GB NAND Flash inside a USB memory device I have bought for 12 Euro like: http://www.priz24.de/product_info.php?products_id=1970 ? So in case there will no n