From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 178k95-0005zR-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 16:59:55 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: "Richard A. Smith" , "linuxbios@lanl.gov" , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Getting big flash onto motherboards. Will CF work? what will? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:59:51 +0100 Message-ID: <10899.1021651191@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: rminnich@lanl.gov said: > Are there other options? These are 1U or .8U spaces most likely, and > so a big PCI card is out of the question -- that's needed for Myrinet. > There are no ISA slots. There are two IDE headers, and possibly a SCSI > header. A very low profile PCI card might work. The only option I was > aware of was IDE->CF adapaters. Is there something else I should look > at? Given that you can ensure the BIOS won't get too upset -- could you glue some flash chips onto a DIMM? If they're going to be read-only, I suspect you'd get away with CF though. -- dwmw2