Subject: Re: strange sbus cards
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/31/2004 09:31:05
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:57:12PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 13:02 Uhr -0400 18.5.2002, der Mouse wrote:
 
> >> I had some IOtech IEEE-488 <-> SCSI bridges but couldn't get any docs
> >> from them.  The good news though is that many IEEE-488 cards used 1
> >> of only a few chips.  That would be a way of identifying the card for
> >> sure.  NEC 7210 and TMS 9914A are 2 common ones.
> >
> >Looks like the NEC 7210 is it, then. :-)  Now, to figure out how it's
> >glued to the SBus...and find 7210 docs.

7210 docs are available online.  Also I think Greg McGarry (sp?) added
some good IEEE-488 code a year or 2 back.  In particular he did a driver
for the CEC488 card which I _think_ was 7210 based.

-Dan

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