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 RAA54863 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id RAA26892 for linux-list; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:12:38 -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 RAA59147 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:12:36 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (richardh@infopact.nl) Received: from bronx.bizarre.nl (9dyn101.breda.casema.net [195.96.116.101]) 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 RAA03108 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:12:33 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (richardh@infopact.nl) Received: from infopact.nl (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bronx.bizarre.nl (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id CAA02227; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:17:09 +0200 Message-ID: <36098F84.78D3764E@infopact.nl> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:17:08 +0200 From: Richard Hartensveld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de CC: Thomas Bogendoerfer , Alex deVries , 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 09:22:41PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:24:20PM -0400, Alex deVries wrote: > > > First, I wonder how much of the kernel will actually work on the > > > Challenge S; I'm told there are SCSI controller differences. > > > > looking linus.linux.sgi.com, which is AFAIK a Challenge S, it seems the > > Challenge has a wd33c93 and a wd33c95. The wd33c93 is what we already support. > > 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? > My experience is that the wd93 driver doens't work with the wd95 controller, maybe someone else hassuccessfully tried this? Richard