Re: [linuxdc-dev]More ram

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* Dylan Egan <cra...@bi...> on Mon, Feb 04, 2002:

> Hi i was inquiring whether you were able to add more ram to the dc=20
> externally much like the ide/nic made by bITmASTER?
>=20

It's certainly possible, but are you inquiring on the part of feasibility
or of someone else to implement it?  In the latter case you're pretty much
on your own as no one has dedicated themselves to making funky DC add-on
devices.  IOW, you need to be a hardware guru to do such things, there's no
one around to just do it for you.  On the feasibility side, you have to ask
yourself:
  1) how fast could such an interface possibly be, seeing that the G2 Bus
  (where the expansion port lives) is only clocked at 16-bit@25Mhz while the
  native SDRAM interface is 64-bit@100Mhz?
  2) how would applications or operating systems detect and utilize such
  RAM?
  3) is it more trouble than it's worth?

If you feel comfortable answering those questions, then by all means go
ahead and impress the world.

M. R.