RE: [jornada] Jornada 720 flashboard question

Thanks, Guy!

-Mark Gollahon

Guy Dufour wrote ..
> Hi Mark,
>
>
> I am interested on a flash board also and found out that the molex
> connectors part number 55299-1408 used in the jornada are going to be
> manufactured again as lead free parts and the equivalent part number is
> now
> 55299-1478 (the 140 pin board to board connector lead free).
>
> I will try to obtain samples and ship them to you so you can have some
> boards built for the bunch of us who want to correctly run linux on the
> 720.
>
> I will keep you posted on my efforts of obtaining the samples.
>
>
> Regards,
> Guy Dufour
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jornada-bounces_at_handhelds.org [mailto:jornada-bounces_at_handhelds.org]
> On Behalf Of Mark Gollahon
> Sent: February 28, 2005 7:28 AM
> To: marek_at_pikulski.net
> Cc: jornada_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [jornada] Jornada 720 flashboard question
>
> Marek:
>
> I tried to get the flashboard manufacturing moving a few months ago, but
> I
> hit a couple of brick walls. First, I could not find anyone selling the
> connector that attaches the flashboard to the J72x's mainboard. Second,
> I
> could not figure out a way to do a "first time" programming of the flash
> memory (i.e. to at least put a bootloader in place).
>
> Now, there was a fellow at HP that was going to send me his "stash" of
> connectors (which would have been all that we needed), but, for whatever
> reason, when I tried to arrange the actual transfer, he would not answer
> me back.
>
> Secondly, there is a JTAG interface on the J72x's motherboard somewhere,
> but, again, when I asked HP for a motherboard layout, all I got was
> silence.
>
> So, until these points change, a flashboard for the Jornada 72x is
> pretty much dead.
>
> Regards,
> -Mark Gollahon
>
>
> Marek Pikulski wrote ..
> > Hi,
> >
> > who is 'responsible' for building the flashboards? I found some
> > technical specifications for the flashboards on handhelds.org, but I
> > haven't tried to understand all of them yet. I'm afraid I'm unable to
> > build one myself.
> > What does such a board cost (parts+manufacturing)?
> > Is there someone who wants to sell one? ;)
> >
> > Marek
Received on Mon Feb 28 2005 - 22:44:00 EST