[LinuxBIOS] Anyone bought a BIOS Savior recently?

[Daniel Drake]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a RD1-PMC4 BIOS savior, but am having trouble finding
places with it in stock. I even tried contacting the manufacturer and
ordering one from Taiwan, but they don't have any available. They
redirected us to various resellers all around the world, but none of
these seem to have any stock either.

Has anyone bought one of these recently? If so, where from?

Thanks!

[Ed Swierk]

On 11/28/06, Daniel Drake  wrote:
> I'm trying to get a RD1-PMC4 BIOS savior, but am having trouble finding
> places with it in stock. I even tried contacting the manufacturer and
> ordering one from Taiwan, but they don't have any available. They
> redirected us to various resellers all around the world, but none of
> these seem to have any stock either.

I ordered one in September from FrozenCPU.com.

--Ed

[Myles Watson]

I checked and they're out of stock, but have the RD1-PMC2. Have you thought
about putting a fallback-only image in 256K on the RD1-PMC2?

I use the PMC4 with a 1M chip. Is there a reason the PMC2 wouldn't work as
well?

Myles
> > I'm trying to get a RD1-PMC4 BIOS savior, but am having trouble finding
> > places with it in stock. I even tried contacting the manufacturer and
> > ordering one from Taiwan, but they don't have any available. They
> > redirected us to various resellers all around the world, but none of
> > these seem to have any stock either.
>
> I ordered one in September from FrozenCPU.com.
>
> --Ed

[David H. Barr]

On 11/28/06, Ed Swierk  wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Daniel Drake  wrote:
> > I'm trying to get a RD1-PMC4 BIOS savior, but am having trouble finding
> > places with it in stock. I even tried contacting the manufacturer and
> > ordering one from Taiwan, but they don't have any available. They
> > redirected us to various resellers all around the world, but none of
> > these seem to have any stock either.
>
> I ordered one in September from FrozenCPU.com.

I can verify that neither PC Extreme nor FrozenCPU have any in stock
at this time.  I don't personally know of any other web vendors that
carried this item.

-dhbarr.

[Raphaël Jacquot]

Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a RD1-PMC4 BIOS savior, but am having trouble finding
> places with it in stock. I even tried contacting the manufacturer and
> ordering one from Taiwan, but they don't have any available. They
> redirected us to various resellers all around the world, but none of
> these seem to have any stock either.
>
> Has anyone bought one of these recently? If so, where from?
>
> Thanks!

I tried to buy 5 RD1-PL for the EPIA we all have around here (group buy 
for the local lug) from eksitdata, and they only had 2 left. They told 
me that there was no replacement for the product.
I then sent an email to IOSS, and they told me that they had no plans to 
make those anymore.

I'm starting to thing all of this is related to the latest lead scare 
and the ROHS bullshit program...

[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:39:00AM +0100, Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
> I'm starting to thing all of this is related to the latest lead
> scare and the ROHS bullshit program...

I am fairly sure the reason these products are end-of-life now is
that IOSS sold out their last production run and if they would make
another run they would end up with too many left over since the
market will soon be moving on to newer technology. (SPI)

//Peter

[raphael Jacquot]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:39:00AM +0100, Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
> > I'm starting to thing all of this is related to the latest lead
> > scare and the ROHS bullshit program...
>
> I am fairly sure the reason these products are end-of-life now is
> that IOSS sold out their last production run and if they would make
> another run they would end up with too many left over since the
> market will soon be moving on to newer technology. (SPI)

care to share any links on explanations for that, I have never heard of 
that tech

[LinuxBIOS] LPC -> SPI

[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:34:45AM +0100, raphael Jacquot wrote:
> care to share any links on explanations for that, I have never
> heard of that tech

Sure!

It's pretty common in microcontrollers because it uses very few
lines for communication, yet can run at decent speeds.

I'm not sure if/where there is an official specification but this
page has a nice explanation:

http://www.mct.net/faq/spi.html

The major benefit is that much smaller packages are possible (board
land is precious) since the protocol needs (much) fewer signals.

//Peter

[LinuxBIOS] LPC -> SPI

[raphael Jacquot]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:34:45AM +0100, raphael Jacquot wrote:
> > care to share any links on explanations for that, I have never
> > heard of that tech
>
> Sure!
>
> It's pretty common in microcontrollers because it uses very few
> lines for communication, yet can run at decent speeds.
>
> I'm not sure if/where there is an official specification but this
> page has a nice explanation:
>
> http://www.mct.net/faq/spi.html
>
> The major benefit is that much smaller packages are possible (board
> land is precious) since the protocol needs (much) fewer signals.
>
> //Peter

aaahah... *that* version of SPI...
ok; it all makes sense now :D