Re: [coreboot] SCALE

[Dan Lykowski]

The manufacturer makes them in a number of form factors. 
In the form I have on hand, it plugs right in to a standard motherboard SATA slot without a cable. I have to connect an external +5V supply from the power supply.

Dan Lykowski

--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Tom Sylla  wrote:

From: Tom Sylla 
Subject: Re: [coreboot] SCALE
To: "Dan Lykowski" 
Cc: "Peter Stuge" , [e-mail]
Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 4:45 PM

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Do most normal motherboards supply +5V on pin 7 of their SATA
connectors to make this work?

Are you using them on an off-the-shelf motherboard?

This looks like something intended for an embedded design, where you
make your connector a non-standard pinout to support it.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dan Lykowski  wrote:
> I would suggest this part:
> http://www.innodisk.com/flashstorage_specification.jsp?flashid=29
> They plug right in to the SATA port.
> They have a minor quirk where you have to 'force.libata=1:1.5g' to get them
> to work under Linux but that is the only negative I have run across so far.
>
> Dan Lykowski
>
> --- On Mon, 1/12/09, Peter Stuge  wrote:
>
> From: Peter Stuge 
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] SCALE
> To: [e-mail]
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 2:55 PM
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> ron minnich wrote:
> > I'd like to have the 5 second "boot to X" demo at the table. If
> > somebody can help direct me to getting that set up, I'd appreciate
> > it.
>
> If you don't want to cram everything into a 16Mbit flash chip, which
> could be tight, you need some ATA flash to store apps on.
>
> Since the dbm690 has an LPC PLCC socket you can use the dongle and my
> adapter plug though, that way you have 32Mbit which is already more
> roomy.
>
> Maybe the dongle occupied for the ALIX already?
>
> //Peter