Subject: Re: siop vs. ncr
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 06/16/2000 16:31:27
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:25:42AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:13:27PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
>  > Hum, will this work with all the controllers ?
>  > Also it doesn't really solve the issues of wide ctrl/disk and narrow link.
> 
> Read the EEPROM -- there are a few "standard" formats.  There's a checksum
> for each one, so you can tell if you're using the correct format.
> 
> The EEPROM will have a table of "wide: yes/no   sync: yes/no", etc. for
> each target.

But this won't work if I put such a controller in something else than 
an i386, isn't it ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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