Subject: Re: info on sun3-80
To: J.T. Conklin <jconklin@netcom.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sun3
Date: 09/01/1995 12:36:49
On Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:43:00 -0700 (PDT)
jconklin@netcom.com (J.T. Conklin) wrote:
> We have copies of the Sun3x architecture manual. Unfortunately, the
> version we have is woefully incomplete. For exxample, the section on
> the SCSI subsystem simply states that the SCSI system has yet to be
> specified. So far I've been using the similarities between the 3/80
> and the Sparcstation to fill in the gaps.
I did a little poking around on some Sun 3x systems ... including asking
several people for `dmesg' output from SunOS ... I _believe_ that the
3/80's `sm' SCSI interface is like the SPARCstations' `esp', but perhaps
behind different DMA glue ...
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