25 Jun
2006
25 Jun
'06
5:15 p.m.
On 6/26/2006 at 1:01 AM Jules Richardson wrote:
Out of interest, has anyone else ever managed to
persuade linux to talk
to any
of the Xebec/Omti/Emulex/Adaptec ST506-SCSI bridge boards? Most of the
boards
are SASI, or at best semi-SCSI, so Linux refuses to talk to them.
Well, the firmware on the OMTI boards is in EPROM and the CPU's a Z8--it
shouldn't be too difficult to add an IDENTIFY command to it. I seem to
recall that the OMTI puts the geometry information into the transfer buffer
at bootup--but I'll have to check my docs.
Cheers,
Chuck