[parisc-linux] 735/125 Wide Diff scsi

[Derek Engelhaupt]

So my C180 has a different HVD controller chip than the 735?

derek

--- Grant Grundler <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com> wrote:
> "John David Anglin" wrote:
> > > Is there any approx time for the WD driver? I have about 60G I
> can put on
> > > my machine if it works.. Will it work if It gets plugged in the
> SE Chain?
> > 
> > No.  It may cause damage.
> 
> Not true.
> Mixing SE and HVD devices on a SCSI bus will result in the interface
> chips "tri-stating". ie no one can talk on the bus. But nothing
> smokes
> either - at least not for the HP product testing I was involved with
> several years ago.
> 
> > There was a question about the WD driver not too long ago.  You
> could search
> > for the answer but I believe only hpux supports the WD interface at
> this
> > time.
> 
> And that's going to get dropped soon too.
> Last product to support HVD is based on Sym53c876 chip.
> The interface cards are supported on new IA64 machines
> but I'm not sure one can purchase them or purchase HVD disks.
> 
> > You may be able to add a newer LVD to the SE chain and have it
> > work.  I'm not sure if it could be used as a boot device though.
> 
> The LVD should work fine as a boot device in SE mode.
> LVD devices talk SE like any other SE device (AFAIK).
> 
> grant
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