From: freed@europa.orion.adobe.com (Alex Freed) Subject: Re: Does _anyone_ use a WD-7000FASST with Linux? Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 00:38:40 GMT
Yes, I use a WD-7000FASST with Linux and it works great The ROM is only used
for identifying the card, so the rev shouldn't matter. What does matter, is
the address the ROM is on. The standard code starts looking for the ROM
signature from D8000 or smth like that. If your ROM lives at say c800, you
lose.
Also the driver is hard-programmed to use only one of (3?) possible
interrupts. So you either configure the card accordingly or make a trivial
changes to the device driver code and recompile. If you do, the system will
boot MUCH faster not looking for hardware that YOU KNOW is not there.