DOC ATA Modules & EPIA DOC

[Nicholas Mistry]

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.

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

Currently i am using CF w/ an ATA -> IDE adapter.  I have not found a way
to write protect my CF data.

as a side note..

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?

Thanks

-Nick

[Peter Stuge]

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

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > 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?

nope. then you can't write control registers.

ron

[Justin Cormack]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 00:56, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > 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?

No, but you can buy CF with a write protect switch (with some
difficulty). It cam up once before on this list I think.

Justin

[Peter Stuge]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:20:28PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > Just cut the appropriate bus line?
>
> nope. then you can't write control registers.

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:35:28PM +0000, Justin Cormack wrote:
> > Just cut the appropriate bus line?
>
> No, but you can buy CF with a write protect switch (with some
> difficulty). It cam up once before on this list I think.

Of course.  I do remember that there was a write protect jumper on those
SST ADC:s however, it just controlled some ADC logic I guess.

I even made our prototype adapter but managed to forget this anyway.  :)

//Peter