Re: SYM8xx_2 driver ignores certain EEPROM settings

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:40:04AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Peter Missel schrieb am 2005-01-02:
> 
> > This possibly is because with the exception of the 815 chip, LSI's Narrow 
> > chips don't have a BIOS ROM interface, while the Wide chips do. So if you 
> > were to build a controller card w/ boot ROM support, you had to use a Wide 
> > chip even if the card was to be Narrow-only.
> > 
> > Tekram's 310U, IIRC, was a ROM-less card that used the 860 Narrow
> > chip, wasn't it?
> 
> On the DC-310U, they used a SYM53C860, I'm not sure about the specs of
> the chip now that you write narrow.

This is documented in Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt:

       On board                                   LOAD/STORE   HARDWARE
Chip   SDMS BIOS   Wide   SCSI std.   Max. sync   SCRIPTS      PHASE MISMATCH
----   ---------   ----   ---------   ----------  ----------   --------------
[...]
860        N         N      FAST20    20 MB/s        Y             N

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