[coreboot] DFI Infinity NF570-M2/G motherboard

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 26.10.2008 15:39, Chris Lingard wrote:
> Corey Osgood wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Chris Lingard <chris at stockwith.co.uk
> > <mailto:chris at stockwith.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> >     The board comes with a ITE IT8716F 4MB chip; but that is compatible
> >     with  SST49LF040A chips.  I already have these and some SST49LF080A
> >     chips; just wish there were 160 or 320MB
> >
> >
> > I'm hoping that's a typo, SST49LF080 is 8Mb (that's 8 megabits, or 1
> > megabyte), larger chips would be 16 or 32Mb (2 or 4MB).
>
> Well if 040 is 4MB and 080 is 8MB, I would hope there is a 160 at 16MB
> and so on; or do engineers use a secret numbering system :-)

Secret numbering system.
040 is 4 Mbit = 512 kByte
080 is 8 Mbit = 1 MByte
160 is 16 Mbit = 2 MByte

> I used to do boot CDs pretending to be 2.8Mb floppies, and would be
> happy with a 4Mb chip to get a Linux kernel into. 

No, these were 2.88 MByte floppies, not 2.88 Mbit floppies. Even the
SST49LF160 chip is smaller than that floppy.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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