> >Hi, > > Looking for any and all referances to getting people who have >successfully got Linux running on a system using "DiskOnChip" and if >"M-Systems" is the only manufacture. I struggled for a whole week with no success. (On an AMPRO CM-P5i, an otherwise nice board) The driver would hang the system at partition check time. There is a beta driver for Linux to use the DiskOnChip but I only ever saw one instance that actually ran...and the source was not available. M-Systems is the only maker of the software that controls DiskOnChip devices. You can get the driver through Tech Support. The one plus of DoC is that it registers BIOS extensions at boot, and thus behaves transparently in DOS. The only way I ever got Linux to boot off a DiskOnChip was to install DR-DOS on the DoC, boot into DOS and then use loadlin to load a kernel and ramdisk image into memory. Thus Linux boots and runs great, but cannot see the DoC. (And no, a DoC does not behave anythong like an EEPROM..can't just read/write to it, it's got a state machine in it, with the operation locked up tight.) The M-Systems driver is as un-COSHER as can be... >Rob. >-- >"Robert W. Current" <> - email >http://www.current.nu - personal web site >"Hey mister, turn it on, turn it up, and turn me loose." - Dwight Yoakam -- Eric LaForest Nascent Linux Borg -www.ncf.carleton.ca/~di458- #define Hacker !(Cracker) //FYI: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon Breaking into computers does not make one a hacker, for the same reasons that hotwiring cars does not make one a mechanic... paraphr. from ESR -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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