Hello Ralf & All,
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> Helle night shift :-)
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 10:48:13PM +0000, Dominic Sweetman wrote:
>
> > > Nevada is the nickname for the Rm5230 / Rm5260 / Rm 5270 processors
> > > developed by IDT. The Qube is based on the 5230.
> >
> > Not IDT, QED! (Their first product under their own name, so they'd be
> > upset). Cobalt started their development with one of our P-4032
> > boards - I don't know whether they used any of the same devices, but I
> > think Ralf got Linux going on one of our babies.
>
> Sorry, QED. Thought the Rm7000 was the first thing QED produced on their
> own.
>
> The Qube design actually changed quite a bit in progress. The Qube
> initially had a 21042, then 21142 chip but I think they reverted to the
The present RAQ I have has the 21142 on it , Just received this
unit as an eval unit , which we will be purchasing . ;-)
> 10mbit for the production version. I'm not shure if it's still a chip
> of the Tulip family. Also there was a NCR53C810 on at least preproduction
> versions.
Damn, I wish they had kept that series of controller chips
on-board . The present units (afaict) do not ship with any
scsi in the system & the RAQ's are incapable of adding
any options into . The Qube's only have the one pci slot
for options .
>The chipset used is a different one from Galileo. It's the In
> any case Linux on the P-4032 was the first step to get this thing running.
> I should mention that Cobalt did their P-4032 port independent from my
> P-4032 work.
ttys, JimL
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