On Mon, 17 May 1999, Brendan Simon wrote:
> To make things really easy, I would put a Disk-On-Chip
> (http://www.m-sys.com) flash device on your board. It has an IDE interface and
> comes in 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 40, 72 & 144MB versions. They are a little pricy but
> they make things very easy and very fast to get up and running. Because they look
> like any other IDE device, you can use the existing drivers without any
> modifications. You can even use LILO as your bootloader, have multiple partitions
> and multiple operating systems (eg. Linux, Windows, etc).
Well, as far as I know they do not have IDE interface, but a propertiary,
binary-only driver, which has to be compiled in the kernel. Then it looks
like a standard block device, but only for "supported" kernels. Such kernel
can not be distributed (GPL).
OK, may be they have seen the light and started making true IDE devices.
There are many companies making flash IDE disks like SanDisk or
http://www.pqi.com.tw/Products/Flashdsk/flashdsk.htm#40pins
Regards,
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Tomek
