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Re: {Spam?} RE: [cobalt-users] Intel Flash EEPROM (ROM)
- Subject: Re: {Spam?} RE: [cobalt-users] Intel Flash EEPROM (ROM)
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Mar 16 06:49:01 2004
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Phil Beynon wrote:
> Some of these EEproms seem to have a (low) number of re-write capabilities,
> this has been seen in other areas such as cable tv / satellite decoders
> where updates to firmware are often broadcast without user intervention and
> then the box fails. Probably one of the most common failure modes on these
> boxes.
I don't think that is the problem. These EEPROMs have 16 64KB blocks, and
it looks like only the boot page gets programmed correctly. It looks
like the Intel EEPROM also has different programming procedure, it is a
flash file system, whereas I don't thing the AMD is.
Gerald
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