Hello out there, I have a demo unit of the M-system Disk on chip. It is a 4-72 Meg Flash file system, EEprom NV-Ram. The kit came with an eval card that you just stick into a 16-bit ISA port. The way the thing works (as far as I can tell)- you set the host card on a boot address in ram (like D0000) and when the system boots up it loads a hardware driver that translates the disk-on-chip as a standard hard drive. DOS is easily fooled, and the system will bootup and see the disk-on-chip as a standard Hard drive. It works great in DOS - but linux will not recognize the device. Acording to the people at M-system they might work on a linux driver soon (god only knows when that might happen). They did tell me that the eval card that comes with the chip is much like a SCSI host adapter. And there documentation states that the chip should work with any 32-pin DIP JEDEC EEPROM compliant port. If anyone has a clue on where to beggin in attempting to get this to work in linux I'd be very intrested. I have tried to get the device to work in DOSEMU with no luck as well. |