USB - PIO based flasher

[Joseph Smith]

Hello,
Has anyone noticed this product?

http://www.bmc-messsysteme.de/us/pr-usb-pio.html

I think this would make an awesome little flasher :-)
And it already supports many OS's:
Windows® 7/XP as well as under MAC OS X, Free BSD and Linux

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi,

On 14.07.2010 13:13, Joseph Smith wrote:
> http://www.bmc-messsysteme.de/us/pr-usb-pio.html
>
> I think this would make an awesome little flasher :-)

I think it's too expensive, and there is absolutely no information about
the controller it uses.
> And it already supports many OS's:
> Windows® 7/XP as well as under MAC OS X, Free BSD and Linux

For their software maybe, but that unfortunately won't help flashrom at all.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Guenter]

Hi,
Am 14.07.2010 16:29, schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
> On 14.07.2010 13:13, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > http://www.bmc-messsysteme.de/us/pr-usb-pio.html
> >
> > I think this would make an awesome little flasher :-)
>
> I think it's too expensive, and there is absolutely no information about
> the controller it uses.

I was thinking exactly same ...
Take a look here fore a really cheap usb2par adapter:
USD/GBP http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260559167502
EURO    http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260559167502

and with a little bit external logic you can make an awesome little 
flasher from it I think ...
with this cheap price worth to think about, and big plus would be that 
you can then also use this flasher on any standard parallel port.

Also there are other cheap ready-to-use programmers available, f.e.:
USD/GBP http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190406064090
EURO    http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190406064090
just read what you all get with this offer ...

Gün.

[Joseph Smith]

On 07/14/2010 06:20 PM, Guenter wrote:
> Hi,
> Am 14.07.2010 16:29, schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
> > On 14.07.2010 13:13, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > > http://www.bmc-messsysteme.de/us/pr-usb-pio.html
> > >
> > > I think this would make an awesome little flasher :-)

After reading it looks like the USB-PIO is a USB version of the IDE 
Flasher (http://www.loet.de/flasher.html) with some kind of a modern 
82C55 PIO chip. I would love to know what is inside of it :-)
> > I think it's too expensive, and there is absolutely no information about
> > the controller it uses.

If only we could figure out what is inside, one could be made for 
fraction of the price...
> I was thinking exactly same ...
> Take a look here fore a really cheap usb2par adapter:
> USD/GBP http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260559167502
> EURO http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260559167502

Yes, and I read somewhere this adapter "claims" to be a true usb to LPC 
adapter. Not like the other cheap DB25 ones. Just purchased one, we will 
see...
> and with a little bit external logic you can make an awesome little
> flasher from it I think ...
> with this cheap price worth to think about, and big plus would be that
> you can then also use this flasher on any standard parallel port.
>
> Also there are other cheap ready-to-use programmers available, f.e.:
> USD/GBP http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190406064090
> EURO http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190406064090
> just read what you all get with this offer ...

Yes seems tempting but I looks like no LPC or FWH chips 
supported.....and my bigest concern.... no Linux support.