Old 486 Board for ECU??

[Diehl, Jeffrey]

Huh?  The PC will boot of the floppy even if there is not hard drive.  You
simply have to set the hard drive to "not installed."  You could burn an
operating system onto a chip and boot it from a network card, btw.  If your
os was strong enough, you could use the network card to perform updates...
Just thinking.  I am very interested in this idea.

Mike.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chad [mailto:chad at dynojet.com]
Sent: April 28, 2000 3:22 PM
To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
Subject: Re: Old 486 Board for ECU??



>Take an old machine that companies are chucking out.(I've got a few
>486's,early p100's etc..)  Rip out the hard drive,(the bit that  REALLY
>won't like the harsh environment of the automotive world) and all other
>sundries like a sound card(if your lucky!!), cd-rom etc...

Every BIOS I have ever dealt with won't boot without a hard drive.  It 
needs to pass control to some sort of boot sector, usually present on the 
hard drive.  I remember seeing an industrial PC that used SRAM in place of 
a hard drive.  If a person could use that, you wouldn't need to load a bin 
from a floppy drive, just keep the data on the RAM "hard drive".  I think 
even a floppy drive would not be able to handle the intensity of automotive 
conditions for very long.

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