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## M-system DiskonChip 2000 EVB

  Forum: Device Drivers
  Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 15:08:25 GMT
  From: Simeon Gelband <simeon@nycrc.net>

    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.