Hello from Gregg C Levine
And your quite right, Adam.
Every time I stuff a NIC into an ISA slot on a computer running Linux,
and tell the bird where to find the card, and what kind it is, I
discover it enabled both the appropriate module/driver, and then the
collection for ISA system services. It's nearly a kludge, but it
works. In fact transfers are nearly as fast as that of the PCI NIC
cards that I normally use.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Adam Thornton
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Linux for zSeries 3420 Tape driver
> 
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 14:35, Michael Short wrote:
> > The 342x is too old to respond with any sense data telling its
device
> > characteristics. It would require a driver where you could hard
code the
> > values before it would work.
> 
> That's what module parameters are for.  Look at how any of the old
> ISA-bus drivers for x86 did it.
> 
> The 3420's a pretty dumb device, right?  I bet a device driver for
it
> wouldn't be hard.  No, I'm not volunteering.
> 
> Adam

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