Subject: Re: New G4's
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 05:36:35 MST
As close as I can tell so far, the specific chipset is a sym53c896.
Jim
Troy Benjegerdes's bits of Thu, 2 Mar 2000 translated to:
>On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Jim Cole wrote:
>
>> The dual channel Ultra2 controller and hard drive that you can order with
>> the systems, through Apple. Probably their add on card for narrow SCSI as
>> well, but that is not particularly important for the time being.
>
>Any idea which chipset is used on this controller? We've got support for
>Adaptec and Symbios chipsets in the kernel.
>
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>Troy Benjegerdes troy@blacklablinux.com hozer@drgw.net
>
>Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/)
>software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer:
>
>"Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it
>because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why
>I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz
>
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