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From: jmk@pla... jmk@pla...
Subject: [9fans] 9pcfs can't init ncr53c8xx. :-(
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:25:01 -0400

	>the driver to find the card (this card happens to be a Diamond Fireport
	>40). The INIT keeps failing, and I'm not sure if it is because I forgot

although i have no experience with one of these, i believe diamond, for some reason
known only to themselves, changed the device id for the fireport cards from the default
symbios id. the chip is really a symbios (ncr) 53c875 but with a pci device id of 0x8f,
so try adding the lines

	#define SYM_875J_DID	0x008F	/* Diamond Fireport */

and

	{ SYM_875J_DID,   0xff, "SYM53C875J",	Burst128, 16, Prefetch|LocalRAM|BigFifo|Differential|Wide|Ultra|ClockDouble },

at the obvious places in the driver.

you shouldn't need any 'port=...' in plan9.ini, the driver should work that out.

--jim