Ok guys, back on my ol' mail after some other work :)
Thanx for all your replies so here's where I am now :
1 - The original chip is a sst39 part whereas my savior has a w49 2 - This is the part referenced by IOSS for epia 3 - This chip almost work with my via : I can flash it, read it, boot on it... BUT there are a few bytes which are not flashed well.
The wrong bytes always change after reflash.
So, I believe the 49 should work with the epia, at the exception of a little something while flashing.
Where could I dig more in depth ?
Thx, Damien
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:16:55 -0600 (MDT) ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Damien Charlet wrote:
Sorry, this is related to my previous mail "flash_rom and epia 800".
I got a BIOS Savior on my via epia 800. The chip in the RD1-PL is (recognized as ?) a w49f002u. Maybe I should check physically which chip is on the savior ?
my turn to be surprised. The EPIA takes a 49F part? Can somebody fill me in here -- I didn't think it took these. If it does, well, this is very good news.
ron
Sorry, I wasn't clear about that.
It's the offset of the errors (and the number of errors) which change. Most of the time the wrong values are FF's but I think I recall some times where errors had different values (should verify).
I'm using flash_rom, and I don't have a spare part to try.
Damien
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:25:42 -0600 (MDT) ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Damien Charlet wrote:
The wrong bytes always change after reflash.
always the same bytes? even with a different part? Flashing with MTD or flash_rom?
Where could I dig more in depth ?
need more info ...
ron
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Damien Charlet wrote:
I'm using flash_rom, and I don't have a spare part to try.
OK, LNXI has found issues with w49f parts and it seems MTD drivers do better than flash_rom. I think you should try to see if MTD will do a better job.
ron
OK, great, I'm going to try that after work. Thanx Damien
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:35:41 -0600 (MDT) ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Damien Charlet wrote:
I'm using flash_rom, and I don't have a spare part to try.
OK, LNXI has found issues with w49f parts and it seems MTD drivers do better than flash_rom. I think you should try to see if MTD will do a better job.
ron
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