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In article <80m04m$cen$1@reef.news.technocom.net>, Philip Bragg
<philb@vossnet.co.uk> writes
>A few weeks ago I bought a non-bootable �25 inc vat "Iwill 2903" which is
>basically an Advansys ABP-940 without the boot ROM and the settings storage
>EEPROM on board. I'm fairly good with a soldering iron, so I soldered a DIL
>socket into the vacant space on the board which looked as though it should
>have the boot ROM on it, then I used my Black and Decker paint stripping
>heat gun to remove the EEPROM from an old 3com ethernet card (most NICs have
>EEPROMs on them,

Do you mean as in bootable eeproms? I wish you'd show me where I'm after
one of those (actually for a 3com card) I've always looked at computer
fairs etc, I've *never* seen *one*.

>The end result is I have a bootable Ultra (narrow) SCSI card which cost me
>�25, about 3/4 of an hour of my time, a knackered ethernet card, old 386
>BIOS chip and some solder. It occasionally fails to reset which is fine by
>me as I'm only using it in a test bed machine, I wouldn't want to put a hack
>like this in a server anyway.

(OZ eat your heart out! <g>)
-- 
John Chapple