From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:08:10 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram for plan 9 In-Reply-To: <64cb06472b332e0f9edbbe7455382ac1@coraid.com> Message-ID: References: <64cb06472b332e0f9edbbe7455382ac1@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2a94d6c0-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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