Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:31:36 EST5EDT From: "Andrew Webster" <awebster@dataradio.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: The Future Domain SCSI Card Message-ID: <9503162225.AA02652@rf.dataradio.com>
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Hi Fellow FreeBSDers, For some time now, I've been looking at the traffic going by on the question list, and every now and then soneone asks about whether or not the Future Domain cards are supported by FreeBSD, and possibly other stories of non-success in attempting to get their future domain cards to work. So what is the story... Are the Future domain cards supported YES or NO, inquiring minds want to know. If they are NOT supported, is anyone currently WORKING on a port from a Linux driver or writing one from scratch? If not, what is involved in WRITING a driver for the future domain cards? I would be very much interested in giving it a try, but some HELP would be required. I have a couple of FreeBSD systems, and I am appaled by the price difference between a TMC-16xx card and an Adaptec 1542 card which both appear to offer similar functionality. The models that I know of are the TMC-8xx/9xx series which are an 8-bit card commonly bundled with CDROM packages, the TMC-16xx series which is a full-blown 16 bit card with acceptable performance under DOS and other commercial unixes, and the 7000 series which FD picked up from Western Digital which if memory serves is either an MCA or EISA card. Thank you for your patience. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Webster Network Manager / Special Projects Dataradio Inc. 200-5500 Royalmount Ave. TEL: +1 514 737 0020 Town of Mount Royal, QC, CANADA H4P 1H7 FAX: +1 514 737 7883 http://www.dataradio.com Email: awebster@dataradio.com
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