Re: DEC PWS500au (MiataGL) EIDE Issues

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On May 16, 2021, at 9:17 PM, Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> On May 16, 2021, at 2:47 PM, Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> I’ll poke around …
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> Ok, I did a little poking.
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> The Cypress 82c693 is kind of an odd-ball chip… it was used in a few Alpha models… but not much else, as far as I can discern.  Among other things, its ISA interrupt controller is a little different (we already have code that handles this), but there are a lot of additional configuration registers for it that we don’t fiddle with.
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> I see some leads in the Linux driver that look promising.  I’m going to dig out the data sheet and do a little light reading.

Alex — I have a possible fix that I’d like to you try, but because you’re having trouble installing in the first place, I thought I’d ask what would be the easiest way to deliver it to you… fresh 9.1 installation CD-ROM image maybe?

Let me know!

-- thorpej