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Re: Will a Diamond Fireport40 work with linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Thu Oct 30 16:41:36 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:36:15 +0100 (MET)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Justin Miller <jhm@umr.edu>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710300327.VAA23331@rocket.cc.umr.edu>
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Justin Miller wrote:
> I went to diamond mulitimedia's homepage and on the faq for their
> fireport40 scsi contoller it stated the following:
>
>
> Does the FirePort-40 work in Unix?
Stupid question since Unix is a generic name that covers severall
O/Ses which are very different at driver level.
> No
> Does the FirePort-40 work in Novell Netware?
> No
> Does the FirePort-40 support Jaz and Zip drives?
> Yes
> Will the FirePort-40 allow bootable devices like Jaz and Zip
> drives?
> Sorry, not at this time we are working on developing drivers
> for this Note: No time frame.
Latest versions of SYMBIOS SDMS BIOS supports this feature.
> What Operating systems does the FirePort-40 support?
> Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.
>
> Does the FirePort-40 use a interrupt?
> Yes, doing a CTRL-C on bootup allows you to view the interrupt.
> Does the FirePort-40 work in Windows 3.1?
> No
It takes us seconds to understand how to make our drivers working for
Linux and FreeBSD.
(Just the PCI device id that is different from normal 53C875 chips).
> The fireport runs off of Symbios Logic's SYM53C875 chip, and the linux
> has drivers for ncr8xx chips, and i was wondering if it would work with that.
Supported under Linux since ncr53c8xx driver version 1.18h.
Gerard.
