Subject: Re: FWB JackHammer PCI UltraSCSI interface
To: None <askarzy2@csc.com>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/29/2001 08:38:56
Hmm... I'm sorry- I'm still not quite getting this... is this an onboard
chip? If so, the chip itself is fine, but setting up attached SRAM may
be wierd.


On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 askarzy2@csc.com wrote:

> Ooops.... Typical of me.  Rushed to quickly. Sorry I should've contacted
> you directly.... it is not that I didn't bother, more, that I didn't want
> to bother you without really doing more work on the problem. When I saw
> Erik's mail, I had a knee jerk reaction, as his must be the first message
> on the mailing list in a long time about the JackHammer PCI card.
>
> Basically, I was getting errors relating to firmware checksum and nvram. I
> did try the settings where firmware up load is disabled and also not to
> check the nvram.  I need to run through the whole exercise again to give
> you a better answer.
>
> It looks as if the JackHammer is using the ISP 1020 at a different address
> location or something.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andre
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> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> on 29/06/2001 16:17:38
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> Please respond to <mjacob@feral.com>
>
> To:   Andre Skarzynski <skarzynski_andre@jpmorgan.com>
> cc:   <port-macppc@netbsd.org>, <fair@clock.org>
> Subject:  Re: FWB JackHammer PCI UltraSCSI interface
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> Amazing. My name's right at the top of the driver and you didn't bother
> to mail me. Did you have the same experience as Erik?
>
> -matt
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> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Andre Skarzynski wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have such a card. I did try getting it going with NetBSD by changing
> > various settings in the ISP driver, however, I did not really have much
> > luck, as it is non-trivial. If I had the time, I would have tried
> harder....
> >
> > I would be willing to do some testing and possible work on it when things
> > quieten down at my end. If anyone gets the driver working with the
> > JackaHammer, please let me know.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andre'
> >
> >  >And please report problems to me.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Who else is using this PCI SCSI interface card with NetBSD and the
> >  > isp(4) driver on -current?
> >  >
> >  >       curious,
> >  >
> >  >       Erik <fair@clock.org>
> >  >
> >
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