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Re: Diamond Fireport 40 (Sym875)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geert Uytterhoeven)
Mon Nov 23 07:52:35 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:53:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981123031820.19161A-100000@sasami.anime.net>
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > I'm considering to buy a Diamond Fireport 40 (SYM53C875 based) UW-SCSI host
> > adapter for my CHRP box (Linux/PPC). Are there known problems with this board
> > on non-Intel architectures?
>
> I believe the board is quite Intel-specific (the boot BIOS is
> for Intel only, I don't think you will be able to boot off the board).
That's a minor issue. I can still have my slow Quantum Fireball on the MESH
chain to boot from.
My Open Firmware Flash ROM has support for some 53c8xx chips, but I'm not sure
whether it'll recognize the '875. We'll see...
> On the other hand, it should work as a standard scsi controller once linux
> is loaded (perhaps booted from a MESH device first?). The Linux driver
> even claims to have PowerPC endian architecture.
Yes, I know people use it with the '875 board that comes with some G3 PowerMac.
I just wanted to know whether there are some Fireport 40 specific quirks...
Thx!
Greetings,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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