Subject: Re: [beginer] netBSD on pc104
To: lepingouin.tux <lepingouin.tux@laposte.net>
From: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 07/26/2005 20:10:40
Hello lepingouin.tux,

Tuesday, July 26, 2005, 4:32:17 PM, you wrote:

> Processor Socket  	Embedded Cyrix Meida GX low power CPU
> Processor Speeds 	Cyrix 266Mhz
> BIOS 	Award BIOS, Y2K compliant, DMI, Plug and Play
> Chipset 	Cyrix Media GX, Cyrix CX5530
> Bus Speed 	66/100MHz
> Memory 	One 168-pin DIMM socket provides up to 128MB SDRAM
> Onboard IDE 	Two IDE disk drives support LBA mode with data rating 33MB/sec
> Onboard LAN 	NS 83815 100 based LAN
> PC104 	One PC/104 Bus connector for 16bit ISA Bus
> USB 	Support two USB ports
> Keyboard 	PS/2 6-pin Mini Din or 5-pin header
> Mouse 	PS/2 6-pin Mini Din

All above is fine.

> Onboard SSD 	DIP socket supports 8MB DiskOnChip Flash Disks

This can be a problem: DiskOnChip is not supported and guess never
will be due to weird politics of M-Systems folks. So if you need to
access some flash better get a board with Compact Flash socket.

> If it's necessary I can plug cdrom, floppy drive and harddrive to 
> install it.
> Is 8MB DiskOnChip enough and if not how many space I need.

I'm running NetBSD on 8Mb Compact Flash card and it works fine. But
once again: DiskOnChip is not supported.

// wbr