RE: Question regarding instructions...

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
You are thinking of that square gizmo, with the blurry label on it? And
above the Disk On Chip device? It might be, I've seen AWARD BIOS units
jammed into PLCC type flash devices before, but its rather rare. That
because EPROM, both flash, and the others exist in many styles. If it's
wearing that label, then you've found it. See if you can identify the
chip type as well, so you can replace it with a matching device. By the
way, what was stored on the DOC, to begin with? And of course my
favorite question of the week, "Where did you get this unit from?".
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:linuxbios-
> [e-mail]] On Behalf Of Nathanael Noblet
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:52 AM
> To: steven james
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Question regarding instructions...
>
> On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 05:59 PM, steven james wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > If the flash is in a socket, no problem. Believe it or not, the PLCC
> > flash
> > chips can be hot swapped (power ON). So, the best approach is to use

a
> > spare chip for LinuxBIOS, and keep the original as a rescue chip.
>
> Well I'd like to know if this is a socket. It doesn't seem like it to
> me... but I imagine with the right tool I would be removable. I have
> taken a picture with a web camera. It is a bad picture but I think it
> is clear enough that someone familiar with BIOS's would recognize it.
> So if you would be so kind as to check that would be great. the

address
> is http://www.gnat.ca/photos/SBC.jpg . Let me know if it looks like a
> removable and I'll start getting the code up and ready to try. Just as
> a little description, the square piece in the middle is the AWARD PNP
> chip and directly below it is the DiscOnChip 2000.
>
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