From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Cc: Alex deVries <adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca>,
Richard Hartensveld <richardh@infopact.nl>,
Rob Lembree <lembree@sgi.com>,
linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: challenge s boots linux
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:29:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980924112924.00665@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980924015938.K2843@uni-koblenz.de>; from ralf@uni-koblenz.de on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:59:38AM +0200
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:59:38AM +0200, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> > As long as the harddisk are attached to it, it should work. The wd33c95
> > is a rather strange chip, and from the datasheet I have here, it looks like
> > a lot of work to write a driver for it, because besides the kernel code,
> > you have to write sequence code for the chip, too.
>
> Did I missunderstand the 95's documentation - I thought we can abuse the
> 95 as a 93, thereby saving alot of driver work for now?
The documentation isn't really clear about that, but I believe you need
sequencer code to make the 95 acting like a 93. And I couldn't find such
a thing, yet.
Thomas.
--
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux,
you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)
[Linus Torvalds in <4rikft$7g5@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI>]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-24 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-22 21:11 challenge s boots linux Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-22 21:01 ` Rob Lembree
1998-09-22 21:41 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-23 0:24 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-23 19:22 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
1998-09-23 20:54 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-23 21:11 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-24 4:47 ` Jeremy John Welling
1998-09-24 9:38 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-24 14:15 ` Alan Cox
1998-09-24 14:15 ` Alan Cox
1998-09-24 16:33 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-24 16:44 ` William J. Earl
1998-09-24 22:42 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-25 5:45 ` Cool Jeremy John Welling
1998-09-23 21:30 ` challenge s boots linux Richard Masoner
1998-09-23 23:59 ` ralf
1998-09-24 0:17 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-24 0:21 ` ralf
1998-09-24 9:29 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
1998-09-24 16:14 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-24 5:44 ` Robin Humble
1998-09-24 5:44 ` Robin Humble
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