26 Jun
2006
26 Jun
'06
3:02 p.m.
On 6/26/2006 at 1:01 AM Jules Richardson wrote:
For the OMTI 5000 series boards, there were actually data sheets for the
3 custom chips (IIRC they were a buffer memory controller, the actual
data encoder/decoder and a VFO/PLL/data separator thein). Those data
sheets did (IIRC) document the various registers in the chips. So it
should be possible to completely understand the firmware.
-tony
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