I phoned the local Maxim distributor in Australia and they very kindly sent
me two samples.  They've arrived this morning, and assuming they do the job
I'll be buying chips for the rest of my machines.

The moral is if you ask nicely...

-----Original Message-----
From: port-sparc-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-sparc-owner@NetBSD.org] On
Behalf Of Jeff Rizzo
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2005 1:57 AM
To: Rob Healey
Cc: port-sparc@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: NVRAM replacement on sun4c machines

Rob Healey wrote:

>
> The Mouser part won't work properly, you need the Dallas Semi version 
> of the chip; the Mouser part reports back the wrong value during the 
> boot and causes the PROM to bail. Specifically, it doesn't have the 
> high bit hard coded to zero so the dumb PROM test fails...
>
> Anyone know of a place that will sell the Dallas Semi part in onesy/
> twosy quantity?
>
> -Rob


You _might_ be able to get samples from Maxim;  they're willing to send
out many of their chips in onesy-twosy for free.  (Not all chips,
though, and I haven't checked about this one)

+j