Re: [ES40-developers] SCSI support for OpenVMS has arrived

[brian w. <bdw...@in...>]

Oh, and this one too:


Index: Configurator.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/es40/es40/src/Configurator.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.14 Configurator.cpp
--- Configurator.cpp    16 Feb 2008 13:00:15 -0000      1.14
+++ Configurator.cpp    16 Feb 2008 16:41:55 -0000
@@ -518,6 +518,7 @@
   {"cirrus",  c_cirrus,                 IS_PCI |                    ON_GUI  },
   {"dec21143",c_dec21143,               IS_PCI |                    IS_NIC  },
   {"sym53c895", c_sym53c895,            IS_PCI |           HAS_DISK         },
+  {"sym53c810", c_sym53c810,            IS_PCI |           HAS_DISK         },
   {"file",    c_file,                                      IS_DISK          },
   {"device",  c_device,                                    IS_DISK          },
   {"ramdisk", c_ramdisk,                                   IS_DISK          },


On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 14:19 +0100, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> Hi Again,
> 
> I haven't been able to get my hands on a KZPCA yet, (some of you had
> suggestions who to ask, I'm pursuing those leads now) but in the
> meantime, I took a good look at the KZPAA card I do have. It's a
> 53C810-based card, which is fairly similar to the 53C895. The good
> news is that this card does not have any firmware. Due to the
> similarities with the 53C895 it turned out to be not that hard to come
> up with a working emulation. I just successfully booted OpenVMS off an
> emulated SCSI disk.
> 
> I've committed the new code to the CVS repository. It will also be in
> the next release. You'll need to change your config file, replace
> 53c895 with 53c810, and all scsi-disks should be in the 0.0 - 0.6
> range (sorry, no wide scsi on this card).
> 
> Camiel.
> 
> On Feb 15, 2008 11:54 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven <iam...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > First, a piece of good news: Eduardo Marcello Serrat has found the
> > cause of the bugcheck in the SCSI driver. That means we're getting
> > closer to working SCSI disks on the emulator running OpenVMS.
> >
> > Now the bad news, to complete the emulation of the SCSI card, we need
> > an image of the firmware ROM on a true DEC 3X-KZPCA-AA SCSI
> > controller.
> >
> > If I could get my hands on a real 3X-KZPCA-AA card, I could probably
> > manage to extract the contents of the ROM to create an image.
> >
> > If any of you happen to have one of these cards, could you let me
> > know? They are identifyable by the main chip, which is either "NCR
> > 53C985", "LSI Logic 53C895" or "Symbios 53C895". There are also
> > versions of this card that won't work with OpenVMS, so please check
> > that first. If you have this card, it would be very useful if you
> > could create an image of the PCI option ROM, or if you'd be willing to
> > part with the card (for a while) so I can extract the image.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Camiel.
> >
> > P.S. Apologies to those who receive this e-mail twice, but I found
> > this important enough to send to both the developers and the
> > announcements list.
> >
> 
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