EPIA flash questions
Marc Nicholas
marc at geekythings.com
Thu Aug 26 17:15:01 CEST 2004
Do either of you happen to know if all the EPIA boards use the same PLCC
Flash?
-marc
-----Original Message-----
From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org
[mailto:linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of ron minnich
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:50 PM
To: Joshua Wise
Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
Subject: Re: EPIA flash questions
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Joshua Wise wrote:
> On board is a PLCC form factor 39SF020A. Mouser also carries the
> 39SF040A, which is a 512k ROM. The pinouts seem to be the same, but
I'm
> not sure whether the extra address lines are carried out anywhere.
Does
> anyone know whether the EPIA will be able to use the extra 256k?
I think it will, I've used that I'm pretty sure.
> Also, I was not planning on getting a BIOS savior. Does anyone have
> experience with hotswapping flashes on the EPIA? Will bad things
happen
> if I do? Do I need to make myself an external board with chip select
> lines, or can I just hotswap?
hot swap has always worked fine for me.
ron
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