3com 3station

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Sun Jan 13 01:35:07 2002

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:

> What you have said is basically what I was planning to do. Unfortunately,
> after careful analysis of the screen printing next to the chips ("odd" and
> "even" is printed there), I've determined that it won't be quite that
> easy. I'm thinking about dumping the rom images and replacing part of it
> if possible. I was hoping to use etherboot, but I'm not sure if I'll be
> able to get it onto the system easily. Perhaps I can use the 34pin header
> for that?

So there are 2 roms, odd/even, one being the Phoenix bios, and the other
labeled with a 3com number?

It could be the odd/even labeling isn't accurate. I've see a few boards
labeled like that where the silk screening didn't reflect what the chips
really did. I have no idea if this unit used odd/even roms, however. What
sizes are the chips? That might help determine what 3com did. Did you
already try booting it with the 3com chip pulled?

I almost wish I had one of these to play with myself :)

-Toth
Received on Sun Jan 13 2002 - 01:35:07 GMT