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Date:      Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:47:03 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
Cc:        cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEC3000/x00 SCSI controller
Message-ID:  <199909091647.KAA59176@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <14295.45030.963851.830444@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Sep 9, 1999 09:14:43 am"

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Andrew Gallatin wrote...
> 
> Martin Cracauer writes:
>  > The installation doc says that the DEC3000/x00 machines support
>  > netboot only.
>  > 
>  > Does this mean the onboard SCSI controller and/or turbochannel SCSI
>  > controllers aren't supported at all?
>  > 
> 
> Yes. I did the original port of the NetBSD support for these machines.
> The SCSI controller was supported before CAM, but I lost access to
> DEC3000/x boxes shortly before CAM-day & nobody ever picked it up.
> 
> The esp.c files are still languishing in our source tree
> (sys/alpha/tc/esp*) if you care port them to CAM.  It might be
> preferable to integrate TC support into the existing PCI amd.c driver,

I'm not sure I follow that...  Do you mean that the NCR 53c94 chips
supported by the esp driver and the AMD 53c974 chips supported by the AMD
driver have the same interface?

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com


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