Flashroms of more tha 2Mbits

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Mon Mar 3 13:48:01 CET 2003


Xavier Pegenaute wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> is possible to find flashroms with at least 6 o 8 Mbits of Memory to 
> substitute the normal flashrom ..?, i prefer don't use DoC ...
> if it's possible, why you use DoC ? by price, by the possibiliti of 
> Disk ?

There are Flash parts available with densities up to 256Mbits. The 
problem is that motherboard layouts (and chipsets) have only enough 
address lines to access 2 Mbits of memory. So just replacing a 2Mb part 
with a larger one won't help.

Bari





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