are there problems with this email? - what is a disc on chip? - beginner's question

[Richard A. Smith]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:54:14 +0000, Antony Stone wrote:

> 
> If you have a flash chip big enough fro a kernel I don't think it'll fit into 
> the normal 32 pin socket used by 2 mbit BIOS chips.
> 

A 29F040b is a 4 m-bit (512k) part and is a std jdec 32 pin pacakge. 
I have managed to get a bios (commercial) + kernel in that.  No root
disk though.  Had to use a 2nd chip for that. (It was a custom board)

The real issue is for commercial MBs is if they brought all the
address lines out to the chip.


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Richard A. Smith                         Bitworks, Inc.               
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