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(ASCEND) Bad Flash rom ?
Can someone explain to me how loading an image into a flash rom which is
too big for the rom can damage it ? Remembering back to my Computer Engineering
courses back in my college days I seem to remember a few minor tidbits about
flash roms, or EEPROM's as we called them. The biggest thing was they were good
for many re-flashes, like 1000 or more. But yet the second time I flash this
P-50 (which is 30 days out of warranty) it pukes and I'm told I loaded too
large of an image using tftp. Now I understand from the explanation of the
tech.supp. person that I should have used a serial download straight to version
6.0. But I do not understand how not doing so will damage the flash rom. Its a
chip that when a certain pin is held hi, accepts input and retains until
another line is held hi. So where does it get damaged? Does the P-50 freak out
if it gets too much data and shoot 18 VDC down the input side or what ???
This sounds like poor engineering anyway you go about it. My computer
certainly doesn't need a RMA number every time I try to install a program and
run out of hard drive space. I might get the "blue screen of death" but I hit
the reset button and everything is back to normal. Can you imagine if I had to
RMA my computer each time I used all the available RAM ?
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