Re: Motorola issues

[Bill Studenmund <skippy%macro.stanford.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Markus Illenseer wrote:

> > If there's an uncompresssed (or standardly compressed) image of the flash
> > rom on there, could you take the floppy to an EPROM/FlashROM programmer
> > and just program a chip that way? It looses the convenience of a FlashROM,
> > but it'd get around a chicken-and-egg problem.
> 
>  Doesn't help, because you need to boot from the floppy - thats what I am
> told to do. I don't want to risk to flash a non-working ROM - I wouldn't
> be able to do anything afterwards...

Oh, I forgot to mention one point. I was thining you'd buy a second chip
and burn THAT with the new image. I'm blindly assuming the chip's
socketed, but this way you'd have a good (?) chip to fall back on. :-)

Sorry I don't have any other ideas. :-(

Good luck,

Bill