Re: HP9000 K-Series support

Michael Shalayeff wrote:

> > Now i need a driver for the built in Fast-Wide-Diff SCSI bus .. ;-)
> 
> i must be blind and do not see fwd in your dmesg?

Its not in the dmesg. I have no idea yet why, but i going to find out
why its not there (and a couple of other cards which are in the K but
do not display).

Debian probes (and uses) the built-in FWD SCSI as

4. KittyHawk GSY Core FW-SCSI (4) at 0xf1800000 [10/0], versions 0x15, 0x1, 0x89

so its really there .. ;-)

I have seen that you seem to have experimented with a siop driver,
do you have something which might help me with the 53c720 ?

> did you reverse the device probe in your changes for some particular reason ?

The PDC was scanned from max index to 0 and i have changed it to go from
0 to PDC_SYSTEM_MAP return code equal -5. This completes (for me) in 6
calls to PDC as opposed to 64-6 calls and conforms to the probe algorithm
as described in PDC doc (1.0, Aug 2001, p4-79).

The cpu and the mem device do not appear at the beginning because they are
not returned by probing via the PDC. It just happened that i called the
new probe routine below the others so they show up at the bottom of the
list.

> also why does it list same device multiple times?

Because the code needs (much) more work. I'm really glad that i have it
running and working on the K220 now (on an old 2G SE SCSI drive) and
i'm able to work directly on the target instead of the dog slow 715/64.

hellmuth
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