[parisc-linux] Re: Presicionbook success

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-04-16 at 15:09, M. Grabert wrote:
> The hard disks are removeable, but there is no obvious IDE-SCSI bridge
> visible. It is build-in inside the laptop (i.e. non-removeable), and it's
> obviously visible from the OS (at least linux sees the IDE chip). Whether
> you can make any sensible use of it is a different question though ...

That means the system either has seperate IDE and SCSI controllers or
has an IDE controller and an IDE_SCSI bridge for scsi disk. I suspect
the former
> > For what its worth, I think the IRQ is hooked to the scsi interface, not to
> > the processor.
> 
> This would make sense.

It would be common sense for two exclusive items to use the same IRQ,
but if pio works so does the IRQ line

> comes with two 4GB hard disks, both with HP-UX installed, but I have to
> ask for the password (or does anybody know how to easily gain root access?),
> which I haven't done yet.

There are several ways but that would be subverting a rights management
system and I don't wish to get the list owners in trouble.