Re: challenge s boots linux

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:59:38AM +0200, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> > As long as the harddisk are attached to it, it should work. The wd33c95
> > is a rather strange chip, and from the datasheet I have here, it looks like
> > a lot of work to write a driver for it, because besides the kernel code,
> > you have to write sequence code for the chip, too.
> 
> Did I missunderstand the 95's documentation - I thought we can abuse the
> 95 as a 93, thereby saving alot of driver work for now?

The documentation isn't really clear about that, but I believe you need
sequencer code to make the 95 acting like a 93. And I couldn't find such
a thing, yet.

Thomas.

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