[rescue] Embedded rescue

[Jeffrey Sharp]

On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, Fogg, James wrote:

> Just scored one of these that was dumpster bound.
>
> http://www.embeddedx86.com/epc/ts2200-spec.php
>
> Now I need ideas for cool projects to build with it. If anyone has
> specific experience with these let me know. It was formerly a VALinux
> VA100 node manager and comes in a cute blue minibox. VA never got it to
> work right and now they are out of the hardware biz.

Free is a good price for it. I've worked with their TS-2350 and YMMV but we
found it unacceptable. On multiple occasions, the built-in (not DiskOnChip)
flash disk self-destructed and was only fixable by having TS ship new chips.
We tried using the included programmer software to reflash the things, but
said software would always crash and burn before completion. TS played dumb,
would not troubleshoot the problem, and just kept sending us more preflashed
chips. When the DIO lines started randomly dying, we trashed the board and
used something else. I'm not surprised that VA never got theirs working.

Still a neat rescue, though. :-)

-- 
Jeffrey Sharp

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