From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: References: <64cb06472b332e0f9edbbe7455382ac1@coraid.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <70A1804E-625A-11D9-8E1A-000D933DFE16@coraid.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Brantley Coile Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram for plan 9 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:20:56 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2aabdc58-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 >