From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc117-bre9.cable.ntl.com [213.105.88.117]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AEC482A for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 04:35:00 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id D81B9B009; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:35:19 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:35:19 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: "van de Werken, Matthew (DEM, PH)" Cc: "'parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org'" Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Terminology Message-ID: <20010430113519.N15532@linuxcare.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from M.Vandewerken@cat.csiro.au on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:13:56PM +1000 List-ID: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:13:56PM +1000, van de Werken, Matthew (DEM, PH) wrote: > Hi folks: > > I'm hoping someone can clear this up for me - it's not documented clearly > anywhere that I can find. > > What's a Zalon? Is it an interface chip between the FW SCSI on some 700 > series machines, or is it something else? An interface chip between 53c720 and HPs internal GSC bus. In my case the Zalon chip is on a GSC card called Bluefish. > What's an Outfield? I know this is on a 735, but some places I've seen say > the 735 is a "hardball", while others list it as an "outfield". My > understanding was that Outfield is equivalent to Zalon, only different. http://puffin.external.hp.com/parisc/hp9000_models.html shows hardball as the project name for 735 machines. http://216.208.98.4/view.php3?type=machine&name=735%2F99 shows outfield as the main i/o control for the machine. > What's a LASI? and how does it relate to the above? (Actually, this one is > answered very nicely on the glossary page, but if someone can compare and > contrast to the above I'd be grateful. I'd say LASI was a newer Outfield. LASI gives you 53c710 scsi rather than 53700. Outfield gives you 82596 LAN, whereas my B180 with LASI has a Dino (GSCtoPCI bridge) and provides Tulip LAN that way. Of course, I'm not that well up on HP internals, so hopefully an HP person will correct anything I got wrong. Richard