From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 24 11:11:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA12506 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 11:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA12497 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 11:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA01442; Fri, 24 May 1996 11:11:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605241811.LAA01442@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: SCSI hostadapter To: dateck@ludd.luth.se (Tomas Klockar) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:11:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dateck@ludd.luth.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605240551.HAA01588@father.ludd.luth.se> from "Tomas Klockar" at May 24, 96 07:51:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. [ ... ] > I looked around last night and linux seems to have support for this chip > and all the other 7xx so i got all thier source for it, but i still could > need some help while writing a deviced driver. > > I just think it's better to suport as many cards as its possible to. I agree; the problem is that most of us don't have this hardware to work with. You should look through questions for "Compaq SCSI" and "PCNet SCSI"; you will find 3 or 4 people with hardware who could help you test, if nothing else. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.