On Tuesday 01 November 2016 05:34:34 andy pugh wrote: > On 1 November 2016 at 03:18, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Surveying my system, thinking I can probably program this 7i90HD > > right on this machine from its unused parport, > > You almost certainly want to use Mesaflash.
Which brings up a question thats been bugging me for a while: Whats the difference between mesaflash, and mesaflash3. They seem to be interchangeable when its a 5i25 on the end of the cable. But there is a small difference in the codes size. But, but but, mesaflash works on a pci interface only, or is that because I've only used it against pci cards? --help says it can do both. And the option list for mesaflash is quite a but longer than it is for mesaflash3, as if the code has been made to autodetect the interface? Mesaflash's option list shows the 7i90 as having 4 interfaces, but the HD apparently has no usb: --epp use EPP interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiply intefaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64) --usb use USB interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiply intefaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64) --spi use SPI interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiply intefaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64) --serial use serial interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiply intefaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64) The 7i90HD variant isn't there. But since I can make the cable, and both have an --info option, I'll do that when I am up for the day. After a couple hours of googling last night, it seems the linux spi drivers are for specific hardware as I find no reference to useing an epp parport to simulate spi. This mobo is now long in the tooth and has no such hardware on it. All in all, confusing. And needs more coffee to sort it. Thanks Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
