From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id CAA82096 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id CAA02325 for linux-list; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:32:47 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id CAA36512 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:32:41 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (sgi.sgi.com!rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by sgi.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id CAA02708 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:32:39 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:32:34 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m0zM7lF-002OmEC; Thu, 24 Sep 98 11:32 MET DST Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA00958; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:29:24 +0200 Message-ID: <19980924112924.00665@alpha.franken.de> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:29:24 +0200 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de Cc: Alex deVries , Richard Hartensveld , Rob Lembree , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: challenge s boots linux References: <36081982.8D3B6975@infopact.nl> <19980923212241.01963@alpha.franken.de> <19980924015938.K2843@uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85 In-Reply-To: <19980924015938.K2843@uni-koblenz.de>; from ralf@uni-koblenz.de on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:59:38AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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>]