Summary: Can the Xylogics 7053 controller be used in a Sun-4/110?

From: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no
Date: Sat Jul 18 1992 - 16:17:29 CDT


I asked:

> Is it possible to use a Xylogics 7053 disk controller (and Sabre SMD
> disks) on a Sun-4/110 running SunOS 4.1.2?

The overwhelming majority of the answers said no, it can't be done, because
the 7053 is a VMEbus bus master and thus is not supported on the Sun-4/110.

One lone dissenter said yes, it can be done, and it is even supported by Sun.

Thanks to:

eirik@TC.Cornell.EDU
"Anthony A. Datri" <datri@concave.convex.com>
Dan Lorenzini <dal@gcm.com>
david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
JanBerger.Henriksen@ii.uib.no
John DiMarco <jdd@cdf.toronto.edu>
Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
guy@auspex.com (Guy Harris)
shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr})
mc@msss.com (Mike Caplinger)
ddl@burrhus.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
John Chee Wah <sysjohn@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Brent Alan Wiese <brent@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu>



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