Subject: Re: 4/110's revisited...
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/12/1996 15:52:29
Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> writes:

> 
> So, the friend who got the 4/110 just found out he's actually getting *two*
> 4/110's, and a 3/60, *all* with cgfour graphics cards... and one color
> monitor.  :)
> [...]
> For that matter, is anyone out there looking for a cgfour for a P4 slot?
> (At least, we *think* it's a cgfour; it has 4 BNC outs, it produces color
> on a color monitor, and it has the PN the hardware reference lists for
> a cgfour, 501-1248.)

Sounds just like the two 4/110s I have here.

> As a side effect, I'm likely to be poking about.  It's my understanding that
> the 4/110 SCSI driver has never learned whatever black magic sun used for
> interrupts, so it doesn't disconnect or reconnect, and I'm wondering how much
> interest there is in, or help there is for, getting this fixed, which I might
> try to do some time.

I was under the impression that the 5380 problems were (partially)
fixed by switching to Gordon's driver.  (I say `partially' because the
driver has a few bugs left, but they don't seem to affect disk drives
much.)

> I'm sort of hoping that either no one cares about the 4/110, [...]

Count me as interested.  B-)