Subject: Re: CD Rom and Future Domain From: tomlin@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Tomlinson) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 00:03:16 GMT
Eric Youngdale (eric@tantalus.dell.com) wrote:
: In article <BuqysA.Fzq@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> tomlin@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Tomlinson) writes:
: >I have recently obtained a CD-ROM with a SCSI card, and would like to be
: >able to use it with Linux. The card is a cheap 8 bit one, and I guessed that
: >it might be compatible with the FD-8xx card (The manual never actually uses
: >the word "Future Domain", but that's what's printed on the chip, the manual
: >refers to a "VV-SCD08").
: to change the bios address. It is entirely possible that this card is a clone
: of one of the supported boards, so short of writing your own driver, you might
: be out of luck. If the boot up actually is doing a scsi reset, then it
: is an encouraging sign.
The card is similar to the FD card which the ST-0x driver supports. The
differences I had to make to get it to work are:
1) Define OVERRIDE, since there is no bios identification on the card.
2) Change the two register locations. The offsets for the ST-0x are 1a00 and
1c00, my card had them at 1c00 and 1e00.
Both of these changes are really minor.
Thanks to those who replied!
Cheers... Mark