Re: [NTLK] Pictures of the inside of Intel 20MB Linear Flash card

Frank Gruendel escribió:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've always wanted to know how the 20MB cards I am occasionally
> parting with look from the inside. Here is the result:
>
> http://www.pda-soft.de/memorycard1.jpg
> http://www.pda-soft.de/memorycard2.jpg
>
> Just in case someone is inclined to find some datasheets and check
> if this card can be coerced into 5V/5V operation (which would make
> it writable in eMates), go ahead. I'll gladly give it a try, but I
> haven't the time right now to find out if the attempt would have
> any chance of success.
>
>

       Back in the days, I found that changing the position of those
two resistors (black 0402) between the driver ICs you could make the
card think it was bigger or smaller. I made a 16MB card using the
flash ICs of 4 4MB cards.
       So they're indeed hackable somehow.

Daniel
      

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Received on Sun Nov 30 16:50:43 2008