[rescue] needed: u1 NVRAM chip

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Sep 24 14:46:54 CDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:14:12PM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
> Wait, why do you need a working battery at all?  Can't you program the 
> data by hand and reboot the sucker, without power cycling it?

If the battery is dead or dying, the data won't be retained on a reboot
(and when the system is moved back to where it belongs).

I'm not going to that level of hackery to keep a system like this going.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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