Thanks for the responses
I'll (probably) be back :-)
Reply by MikeD●February 21, 20052005-02-21
You dont even need a harddrive to boot the first time to. I used one
with a bootable CDROM and formatted the DOC from the prompt. Works just
like a harddrive.
Best look on ebay unless you want to spend a few bills. I have an
sbc-558 and love it. tons of I/O and supports pc104 and pc104 plus. Got
it on ebay for 20$.
Reply by Martin Kaul●February 21, 20052005-02-21
Wilfried wrote:
> Hi all out there,
>
> I want to start experimenting with the PC140 platform but I need some info
> first:
> The disk on chip system:
> - Can I use it as a regular disk, meaning like on a "normal" PC,
> startup with a cdrom, format it an write data to it? And this without
> extra HW (Like a FLASH-Programmer)?
> - Can I use my own (...ok the binaries/sources I get from the net)
> Linux(When it is small enough)
Double-Yes...
M-Sys (the producer of disk-on-chip) provides tools for low-level
formating the DOC's, i.e. before using DOC you must boot from HD, format
DOC and put the OS on the DOC - then the HD is no longer need. Some
distributors may sold pre-formated DOC's...
For linux you must patch the kernel with the device driver of M-Sys.
Then you also can use the DOC like a normal HD - booting linux from DOC
is also possible. Togehter with Busy-Box you can produce a very small
Linux-platform...
Til 2 years ago it was not possible to low-level format the DOC direcly
from linux cause the corresponding tool from M-Sys didn't worked. I
din't know the current status.
regards
Martin
Reply by Wilfried●February 19, 20052005-02-19
Hi all out there,
I want to start experimenting with the PC140 platform but I need some info
first:
The disk on chip system:
- Can I use it as a regular disk, meaning like on a "normal" PC,
startup with a cdrom, format it an write data to it? And this without
extra HW (Like a FLASH-Programmer)?
- Can I use my own (...ok the binaries/sources I get from the net)
Linux(When it is small enough)
In Linux:
- Is it enough to mount the filesystem read-only w/o having problems
when I power-off the system w/o a proper shut down?
- Any Idea about prices?
- Just a starters kit
- But needs a possibility to connect a
monitor/keyboard/mouse
And maybe a PCI-device.
Thank you for reading this article.