Return to the archive index

Re: S-MOS cardpc warning

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Steven Work wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998  wrote:
> 
> > And, since the bios is on the cardpc, if the unit ever separates
> > from the battery for any reason, you lose your bios setup and must
> > restore it manually.
> 
> Are the default BIOS settings usable, assuming no IDE device is
> attached?

the parvus scalable cpu carrier board defaults to boot from a floppy, and
disables booting from an ATA drive. But all you have to do is hit f10 and
change the bios and reboot.

> Also:  What is the system interface to the optional on-board 4MB
> flash?  Is it a linear device mapped or windowed into the memory
> address space, with specs available for twiddling it?  Or is it some
> cheesy DOS-only "solution" like the M-Systems Disk-On-Chip 2000, where
> they consider their programming interface proprietary?

The on board flash is M-Systems Disk-On-Chip

> And finally, is pricing available anywhere?  (mostly interested in 8-
> and 16-MB 486/40 with optional flash, if I can make it usable from
> Linux....)

-Paul

R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator /  / x52059
317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
Computers don't make mistakes;what they do,they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH)
Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

Archive created with babymail