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From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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 09:08:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501090907310.2702@bluesteel.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64cb06472b332e0f9edbbe7455382ac1@coraid.com>



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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-09 16:08 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2005-01-09 16:20   ` Brantley Coile

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