[LinuxBIOS] ECS top hat flash - dual-bios-circuit useable elsewhere ?

Quux pawn2be.wild at yahoo.de
Sun Apr 29 21:44:43 CEST 2007


David H. Barr schrieb:
> Probably a lot like the TiVo PROM back-to-back socket.  Basically two
> plcc32 sockets soldered back to back with a few pin tweaks.  Yet
> another variation on dead-roaching or piggy-backing a chip.
>
> "tivo prom piggy" should get you there as a search query.  I've
> occasionally wondered how hard it would be to have something like this
> manufactured, thereby bypassing the whole TopHat / BIOSSavior vendor
> specific issue.
>   
I 'll keep you guys informed. I even forked out those €8 (incl.
shipping) to that greedy vendor at ebay. ;-)

the tivo socket has no circuitry at all.   --Q





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