Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:48:27 +0100 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: alcorn@within.com (Charles W. Alcorn) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Controller Message-ID: <199602152048.AA16032@Sysiphos> In-Reply-To: alcorn@within.com (Charles W. Alcorn) "SCSI Controller" (Feb 15, 14:38)
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On Feb 15, 14:38, Charles W. Alcorn wrote: } Subject: SCSI Controller } } Hi, } } I was looking at the following WWW page to get a list of hardware that is } supported by FreeBSD... } } http://www.jp.freebsd.org/www.freebsd.org/releases/latest/notes.html } } This page does not list the Bus Logic BT 930 Flash Point LT SCSI controller } as being supported. I was wondering if this is the case (i.e. you know } that FreeBSD does not support this controller) or is there an updated list } of supported hardware I should be looking at. Buslogic makes free OS support for that card impossible. There was a posting to "Comp.os.linux.announce" recently: % From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> % Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce % Subject: BusLogic FlashPoint/BT-948 Upgrade Program % Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 02:28:05 GMT [ ... ] % BusLogic is not prepared at this time to release the information necessary % for third parties to write drivers for the FlashPoint. The only existing % FlashPoint drivers have been written directly by BusLogic Engineering, and % there is no FlashPoint documentation sufficiently detailed to allow outside % developers to write a driver without substantial assistance. While there % are people at BusLogic who would rather not release the details of the % FlashPoint architecture at all, that debate has not yet been settled either % way. In any event, even if documentation were available today it would % take quite a while for a usable driver to be written, especially since I'm % not convinced that the effort required would be worthwhile. [ ... ] % BusLogic asked me to send this announcement since a large percentage of the % questions regarding support for the FlashPoint have either been sent to me % directly via email, or have appeared in the Linux newsgroups in which I % participate. To summarize, BusLogic is offering Linux users an upgrade % from the unsupported FlashPoint LT (BT-930) to the supported BT-948 for US % $45. Contact BusLogic Technical Support at techsup@buslogic.com or +1 408 % 654-0760 to take advantage of their offer. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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