DOC ATA Modules & EPIA DOC

[Peter Stuge]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:39:16PM -0500, Nicholas Mistry wrote:
> I am looking finding alternatives to having a physical harddrive in my
> machine, i was wondering if anyone here has experience w/ either of the
> following.  My goal is to boot LinuxBIOS out of flash, and then Linux off
> a Solid State Devices.

Probably a very common solution while mobo makers stay at 2Mb flash.


> ATA-Disk Module SST58SM128
> http://www.sst.com/products.xhtml/mass_storage/58/SST58SM128
> 
> or similar from Apacer
> http://www.apacer.com/product/flash/index_adc_adm.html

I've used an SST ADC with great success.  Worked swell.


> Currently i am using CF w/ an ATA -> IDE adapter.  I have not found a way
> to write protect my CF data.

Just cut the appropriate bus line?


> I am still looking into the DOC option for the EPIA motherboard, via has
> not replied to any of my requests as to what type of chips are supported
> on the DOC PAD on the EPIA-800e motherboard.   Anyone know more about
> this?

This would be nice, hopefully they run with one of the usable DOCs.  :)


//Peter