> On 29-Aug-99 at 21:11, dtm10360 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > This has probably been asked before but I didn't see it in the
> > faq or the archives so...
> >
> > Currently there is no support for NCR's dual-pentium Microchannel
> > servers (i.e. the 3430/3360). Is this due to the lack of available
> > documentation, or just a lack of interest?
> >
>
> I thought someone had got these working, though maybe the fixes weren't fed
> back in. Main problem IIRC is that these have a built-in NCR 53c700 series SCSI
> controller which is _not_ supported (the 53c8xx ones are the PCI variants, the
> 7xx ones are older ones). Note that someone appears to have done some work to
> get at least some of the 700 series ones working for Amigas. so maybe someone
> should have a hack at this. I note the following in 53c7,8xx.c:
Actually, I contacted Richard Hirst about this earlier this summer. He sent
me his 710 driver that he'd done for a VME machine (endianized for Intel)
and it worked. I wrote an mca detect routine for it and he patched it
in. This driver works quite well, you can the patch at:
http://www.sleepie.demon.co.uk
-Trent
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