On Mar 14, 10:32am, Mike Shaver wrote:
> Subject: Hello world!
> Looks like I'm getting an Indy when I get back to Ottawa next week, so
> I'd like to hear from others (hello?) as to what kind of work we're
> looking at in the short term.
>
> Since I don't grok assembler (my private shame), I don't know how much
> help I'll be at the low-level system stage. I'm quite interested in
> working on userland stuff, and will gladly do any kernel mucking that
> I can handle. (And if someone wants to give me a crash assembly
> course, well... =) )
>
> I understand that we're looking to get a source repository out on the
> 'net, which would be a good start. What are people planning to start
> with first? (I suppose talking to disks is a priority... =) )
>
Umm...I'm sure David got the SCSI stuff going....infact let's look back in my
Outgoing mailbox....Yup, here we go:
WD93:Driver version 1.21 compiled on Jul 11 1996 at 07:19:23
wd33c93-0: chip-WD22c93B microcode=0d
scsi0 : SGI WD93
scsi : 1 host
Started kswapd v 1.2
Vendor: SGI Model: SEAGATE ST31230N Rev: 0272
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: SGI Model: IBMDSAS-3540 Rev: S47K
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2070235 [1010 MB] [1.0 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1070496 [522 MB] [0.5 GB]
sgiseeq.....
eth0:......
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
Sending BOOTP.....
It was a little slow the first time, but he fixed that. It understands SGI
partition tables.
Cheers, Alistair
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