Re: DEC PWS500au (MiataGL) EIDE Issues

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 00:52 Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:

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> > On May 16, 2021, at 9:17 PM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >> On May 16, 2021, at 2:47 PM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> 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.
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> 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?


Thanks, Jason!

I can do either an instkernel (for netbooting) or install floppies. For
some reason, my CD doesn’t want to boot.

- Alex

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