Re: [ES40-developers] SCSI support for OpenVMS has arrived
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Re: [ES40-developers] SCSI support for OpenVMS has arrived
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From: Camiel V. <iam...@gm...> - 2008-02-16 16:58:21
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Yes, I forgot that, thanks!
Camiel.
On Feb 16, 2008 5:42 PM, brian wheeler <bdw...@in...> wrote:
> 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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