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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: SCSI hostadapter
To: dateck@ludd.luth.se (Tomas Klockar)
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 15:13:34 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199605232029.WAA23134@father.ludd.luth.se> from "Tomas Klockar" at May 23, 96 10:29:09 pm
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> I have a SCSI host adapter which I would like to use in freebsd
> The brand is NexStor NXT-82
> Its a VL-Bus FAST SCSI-2 Host adapter
> Its using a a NCR 53C700-66 curcuit
> It memorymaps the data.

I believe the NCR 53c7xx series (I don't recognize the "53C700-66"
in particular, though) are not supported because they are very
low end components, for which no one has written a driver.

These are the same chips in AMD SCSI/Net ethernet/SCSI chips on
the motherboard of some Compaq systems.

You should use another card (~US$75 for an NCR 8xx series, one
of the best available), or write a driver (for which you will need
another working machine, or another card, and docs for the 7xx
chips; on the plus side, yyou should be able to use the 8xx
driver as a template).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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