On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:39:16PM -0500, Nicholas Mistry wrote:
I am looking finding alternatives to having a physical harddrive in my machine, i was wondering if anyone here has experience w/ either of the following. My goal is to boot LinuxBIOS out of flash, and then Linux off a Solid State Devices.
Probably a very common solution while mobo makers stay at 2Mb flash.
ATA-Disk Module SST58SM128 http://www.sst.com/products.xhtml/mass_storage/58/SST58SM128
or similar from Apacer http://www.apacer.com/product/flash/index_adc_adm.html
I've used an SST ADC with great success. Worked swell.
Currently i am using CF w/ an ATA -> IDE adapter. I have not found a way to write protect my CF data.
Just cut the appropriate bus line?
I am still looking into the DOC option for the EPIA motherboard, via has not replied to any of my requests as to what type of chips are supported on the DOC PAD on the EPIA-800e motherboard. Anyone know more about this?
This would be nice, hopefully they run with one of the usable DOCs. :)
//Peter