From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram for plan 9
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:20:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70A1804E-625A-11D9-8E1A-000D933DFE16@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501090907310.2702@bluesteel.lanl.gov>
Oooh, thanks. I'll check on their pricing.
I think we may be a lot cheaper, but I'll see.
After we get this in production I'll let everyone know
the costs. We'll not be in the business of selling
these things, but I like to help 9fans.
On Jan 9, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Brantley Coile wrote:
>
>> We're building a new product for Coraid to complement the EtherDrive
>> storage blades, and we had to have a small amount of nvram. We have
>> designed a small printed circuit board that inserts into the IDE
>> connectors and has a small eeprom on it (32K). It's NOT a Compact
>> disk
>> or anything else that looks like an IDE device, but software can
>> bit-bang the data into and out of the eeprom. It struck me that this
>> would be useful for replacing the floppy disk on CPU servers.
>
> what's the cost likely to be? Reason I'm asking is that a reasonable
> IDE-FLASH (32M or so) is about $40 I think. See www.magicram.com for
> details.
>
> ron
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-09 15:55 Brantley Coile
2005-01-09 16:06 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-09 16:08 ` Brantley Coile
2005-01-09 16:08 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-09 16:20 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
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