128 Mb Flash Upgrade

[albertr]

I'm wondering why  to take risks of damaging the Zaurus with upgrading  64MB NAND chip to mere 128MB NAND when 4GB SD cards are available for under 100 bucks now? I think upgrading RAM chips would be more rewarding and at least as much difficult and interesting?
-albertr

[Reaper]

Because there are some unhappy guys who have only 16 Mb of NAND in their Zaurii.  Like me, for example.  This puts us off the road of mainstream ROMS - we have to hassle with old betas, pivoting and so on...

BTW, I got that Lexar MS with the proper chip and one day I'm going to try it out.

[speculatrix]

I'm wondering why  to take risks of damaging the Zaurus with upgrading  64MB NAND chip to mere 128MB NAND when 4GB SD cards are available for under 100 bucks now? I think upgrading RAM chips would be more rewarding and at least as much difficult and interesting?
-albertr
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Hmm. scratches head. I guess we started this BEFORE the >1GB sd card driver fix came along, and it's developed momentum of its own... tho' I don't know if the drivers work on the SL-6000, as I understood it, the C-Guys drivers were 760/860 only.

However, given the balance of risks, maybe it'd be better to wait until multi-GB support is fully supported on the 6000 rather than take the risk. I can understand 3000 users being a bit keener, though, as the flash limited is slightly more of a pain.

If SDIO were properly supported on the 6000, then keeping the SD card slot free for I/O devices would make flash upgrade more interesting.

[albertr]

Actually, I was just trying to say that RAM upgrade might be at least as useful .. especially since you got a hold of surface mount station. Hint, hint....
-albertr

[speculatrix]

Actually, I was just trying to say that RAM upgrade might be at least as useful .. especially since you got a hold of surface mount station. Hint, hint....
-albertr
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flash memory chips are TSOP, but aren't DRAMs BGA which are harder to solder? I am happy to stand corrected!

[Tom61]

Actually, I was just trying to say that RAM upgrade might be at least as useful .. especially since you got a hold of surface mount station. Hint, hint....
-albertr
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flash memory chips are TSOP, but aren't DRAMs BGA which are harder to solder? I am happy to stand corrected!
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You're right. You have to have expensive reballing hardware, or be really dedicated in rolling your own, to be able to do BGA. SMT is very easy in comparison.