 P2ROM chip in Cx60 machines? |
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 Nov 17 2004, 06:45 AM
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There are references in the data pool to a P2ROM chip (Production Programmed ROM - Oki Semiconductors) in some of the Cxx0 machines.
One Japanese site has photos of a torn down C700 that show this P2ROM VLIC close up. So it is real & not rumor. Some of the info: "Not a flash device" "NAND & NOR where NOR is actually P2ROM" "Non field upgradable" The P2ROM supposedly holds the primary boot loader code & possibly some of the diags & recover programming. Yet the C700 apparently still has the 6-8Mb "boot" area above the initrd section. Does anyone know if the C760/860 machines have a P2ROM chip on board and what active code, if any it contains? TIA |
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