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Re: Will a Diamond Fireport40 work with linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (highlndr@MNSi.net)
Thu Oct 30 08:37:29 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:27:46 -0500
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "." <highlndr@MNSi.net>
JimL,
A couple of questions. Way out of date?! Said it was last modified on Sept 25, 1997?!
2ndly it was the only document that I could find that was (claiming?) to be less than
a month or 2 old that actually Listed some of the specific NCR chipsets the does and
does not have kernel/driver support in Linux now...the others mostly List things like
...53C7xx/8xx driver update... and that's it!
I looked straight thru the Linux Documentation Project homepage and used every search
engine of all the web pages and newsgroups I could find for SPECIFIC info as to which
NCR SCSI chipsets had Linux support, which do not, and which have some in development
and which never will.
I went to you reccomended ftp site. It definitely helped out that Fireport dude.
-------------------------------snip Redhat Boot Disk Readme----------------------------------------------------------
These disks are derived from the original RedHat 4.2 ones. They make use
of a 2.0.30 kernel, but patched with ncr53c8xx version 1.18i.
...
Insert the boot disk into the floppy drive and reboot your computer. The
installation program will start, and will ask you some easy questions and,
maybe, it will ask for the supp disk, depending on the type of install you
are doing. When it asks about scsi controllers, answer "yes" and select
the "NCR 53C810/15/20/25/60/75/95 PCI" driver.
-------------------------------snip Redhat Boot Disk Readme----------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------snip Slackware Boot Disk Readme----------------------------------------------------------
Slackware96 (v. 3.1.0) compatible bootkernel disk for 53c8xx scsi controllers.
--
This boot diskette supports Symbios 53C875 chip based scsi controllers.
Some items based on this chip:
- Tekram DC-390/U Ultra 8 bits
- Tekram DC-390/F Ultra Wide
- Promise Premier SCSI Ultra Ultra Wide
...
-------------------------------snip Slackware Boot Disk Readme----------------------------------------------------------
Wup to do! Again I am looking for information SPECIFICALLY speaking to
Linux support for the NCR 53C710 and NCR53C720 chipsets which should/should have
needed only minor modifications according to that "Old" Linux SCSI How-To I quoted, so
one would think these chipsets would be supported?!?..
Where's the patch?
NCR53c8x0/7x0:
Again and I quote from this "Ancient" HowTo:
------------------------------------------------------snip--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A NCR53c8xx driver has been developed, but currently will not work
with NCR53c700, NCR53c700-66, NCR53c710, and NCR53c720 chips. A list
of changes needed to make each of these chips work follows, as well
as a summary of the complexity.
NCR53c720 (trivial) - detection changes, initialization changes, change
fixup code to translate '810 register addresses to
'7xx mapping.
NCR53c710 (trivial) - detection changes, initialization changes,
of assembler, change fixup code to translate '810 register
addresses to '7xx mapping, change interrupt handlers to treat
IID interrupt from INTFLY instruction to emulate it.
------------------------------------------------------snip--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Where oh where is my "Trivial" patches?!?
James
At 10:53 PM 10/29/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
> Hello all, The SCSI-FAQ you quote below is -very- out of date
>
> for NCR stuff goto ftp://linux.wauug.org/pub/people/gerard-roudier
> and there is a slackware-bootdisk and a redhat-bootdisk here also.
>
> Justin, the 2.0.31 kernel has Gerard's 2.4a which covers upto the
> ncr53c895 chips .
>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> From: Drew Eckhardt
>> Subject: Linux SCSI HOWTO (part 1/3)
>> Date: 1997/10/02
>> Organization: Linux HOWTO Project
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.answers
>>
>> Archive-name: linux/howto/scsi/part1
>> Last-modified: 25 Sep 96
>> SCSINewsgroups: comp.os.linux.answers
> Hth, JimL
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