Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 21:12:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | frank@gevaerts ... | Subject | Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up |
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On Fri, 18 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>: > > > > SCSI emulation over IDE, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI. You have the SCSI mid > > > > layer code but no SCSI hardware drivers. It is a realistic case for an > > > > embedded CD-RW appliance. > > > > > > Or alternatively, you want to enable SCSI code, with no hardware driver, > > > because you are going to build pcmcia, which builds the scsi drivers only > > > if CONFIG_SCSI is defined, and the user might put in an Adaptec 1460B or > > > 1480 scsi card into your pcmcia slot. > > > > Both of these 'problems' assume that you can have IDE or PCMCIA on these > > particular boxes. Does anyone know if that's actually true? > > The answer is: no, you can't. > > I found a feature list for the MVME147 on the web at > <http://www.mcg.mot.com/cfm/templates/article.cfm?PageID=1095>. It > confirmed what thought I remembered from the Motorola site; no PCMCIA, > no IDE/ATAPI. As a matter of fact neither of these technologies > existed yet when the board was being designed in the mid-1980s.
But it is a VME board. That means you can put a SCSI controller on the VME bus (and these do exist, I have one right here).
Frank
> > (The article I found is kind of interesting. It's a dissection of the > MVME147's design and history...narrated in first person.) > > In any case, if this *had* been a problem, the right fix IMO would have > been to split the SCSI symbol into SCSI and SCSI_DRIVERS and have > constraints that would make SCSI and the presence of any SCSI card > imply SCSI_DRIVERS. > -- > <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> > > The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably > by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for > the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot > be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime > in this country is closely connected with this. > -- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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