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 surface

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.

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

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 get my

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 surface

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