Subject: Re: E100
To: Jeff Walther <trag@io.com>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/15/2004 22:49:39
Hello,
>> Do you have any idea if the interrupt assignment is static ( read:
>> will the E100 slot
>> always use IRQ 23 ) ?
>
> On this generation of machines, I'm pretty sure that all the IRQs are
> static wrt to the slots. That is, slot A1 always has the same IRQ,
> slot B1 always has its own, invariable IRQ, etc. There is only one
> IRQ wired to each slot and they are hard wired, so unless Grand
> Central plays with the IRQ assignment/physical pin relationship a
> given slot will always have the same IRQ.
So hardwiring it to IRQ 23 should always work. Well, verifying it won't
hurt :)
>> The OF entry is FWB,JackHammer - maybe bugging FWB yields some
>> details.
> In the era of this card, FWB had sold its hardware business to
> StreamLogic. StreamLogic was later bought by someone else and
> discontinued sales of the Jackhammer line, though they kindly left the
> driver/firmware updates available for download for a long time.
Ok, I've found the latest UMAX drivers/updaters - maybe I can find out
something.
The JackHammer label is highly ambiguous btw. - there was a bunch of
NuBus SCSI cards with this name...
have fun
Michael