Subject: Re: The diskless boot saga continues
To: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/21/1997 07:19:39
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 06:02:37PM -0400, maximum entropy wrote:
> - What type of chip does the 3c509 use for its boot prom?  All I know
> is it's 32K in size...but I can't find a part number in the manual or
> on 3COM's web site.  Is this a standard chip or do I need to buy them
> from 3COM?  Any suggestions for a PROM burner that will do this chip?

I'm pretty sure it uses a standard 32 Kbyte EPROM line 27256 or 27C256.
Shouldn't cost more than $2 or so (well, maybe even $4 if you buy only
one).

  -jm


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