Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:31:34 -0600 From: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 Message-ID: <42A78DE6.8050802@sasktel.net> In-Reply-To: <1620633C-C528-4F8D-A35E-C13A13884D64@hiwaay.net> References: <b41c755205060614186bb2a201@mail.gmail.com> <42A4FD3F.70407@pacific.net.sg> <c389a04d050607070752998e86@mail.gmail.com> <44y89mb1e0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050607175303.GA96525@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <42A62D8D.2020100@digitalarcadia.net> <30399E44-07C0-4F3B-9B1C-9F4B2E020E9C@HiWAAY.net> <42A6617A.5010908@sasktel.net> <1620633C-C528-4F8D-A35E-C13A13884D64@hiwaay.net>
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David Kelly wrote: >> Adaptec doesn't have the worlds best reputation for allowing people >> to write drivers (or even for writing non-buggy firmware) but I seem >> to recall that the Macs that ship with SCSI support use an Adaptec >> chipset... oh, on looking, it appears that the IIci uses an NCR >> SCSI chipset... specifically, the 5380 which was found on many >> commodity PC SCSI cards too. > > > I don't recall Apple ever using Adaptec chips. Their first ethernet > card (NuBus) was done by 3-Com and so marked. Recently (several years > ago) Apple offered a high end Atto SCSI card with new systems. Power > Computing was the one who shipped possibly the world's first Adaptec > 2930's, years before a much improved 2930 hit the boxed shelves. > > IIRC the first PowerPC Macs had two SCSI busses, one was NCR and the > other was a combo AMD Lance ethernet and SCSI. Yeah, looks like I was mistaken on that point... I wonder where I saw an Adaptec chip and was surprised then...
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