At 12:02 29.08.2004 +0000, Miernik wrote:
Hi Miernik!
I would not recommend hot swap. 20 times and then your contacts will
fade or
break( epia has very little space ). BIOS savior is much better solution if you plan to work with Linuxbios(
I've
burned mine 30+ times already with it... ).
Does anyone have any schematics of a BUIS savior (to do it yourself). I'm interested in making these, and maybe even selling them to interested people, but before I start designing my own schematics, maybe someone has seen it somewhere.
Look at:
http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2003-September/005136.html
It's a hack of a BIOS savior using one FlashROM, no PCB, just a switch and three wires. I don't know what the BIOS saviour is doing exactly, but generally you could wire two identical FlashROMs in parallel (except the /CE signal). Then you connect the /CE signal coming from the Mainboard to the switch. The other two pins of the switch are connected to the /CE signal of the two FlashROMs. That's all...
Disadvantage: You'll need a 32pin PLCC-Plugin-Adapter (I don't know the right name)!
Best regards,
Sven