Re: RH9, PCMCIA cdrom install or rescue VAIO-R505TLK, PCGA-CD51

Matthew Miller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:40:37PM -0700, Oisin Feeley wrote:
> > > It's actually a Ricoh 4c475.
> > Or at least, that's what lspci says. However, it also shows that the
> > firewire controller is a "Ricoh Co Ltd R5C551", and according to this
> > page <http://ext.ricoh.co.jp/LSI/spec/assp/5c551/5c551-j.html> that's a
> > "Super One Chip" which contains both a firewire controller and
> > PCMCIA/Cardbus. It's possible that this is the actual chip and it's just
> > emulating the 4c475.
> Definitely?  I just looked at you website (v.nice CSS
> b.t.w.) and you say it's a 5c475 on that -- I'm really
> keen on being certain about this because I'm going to

Well, I'll have to take the system apart and look at the motherboard to know
for sure about the super-one-chip theory, but lspci definitely lists a
4c475.


> With RH7.3 and 8.0 my CardBus bridge gave a boot
> message of:
> "PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device
> 01:02.0.  Please try again using pci=biosirq"
>  and yet worked quite happily with yenta_socket!


I'll look in dmesg and see if I'm getting anything like that.


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