Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 09:23:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: wilcox@math.psu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCR53c710 VLB SCSI Driver. Message-ID: <199506041423.JAA04348@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <199506041318.JAA08047@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jun 4, 95 09:18:06 am
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Peter Dufault wrote: > > Ken Wilcox writes: > > > > > > I don't know if this was asked before hear as I am new to all of the FreeBSD > > world, but not new to Unix, but has anyone even attempted to port the > > NCR 53c710 driver for FreeBSD. I desperately need it and I am not that much of > > a coding guru. I would be willing to test things if someone wants to blindly > > attempt some code writing, or you could just tell me where to begin_hack and > > I will try to do it myself, although you could imagine the mess I might make > > out of the poor scsi disk. Thanks for anything. > > Which driver are you referring too? I have an Acculogic VESApport > VL-Bus adapter with the NCR 53C720 in house for a while that I'm > working on, and I will try to bring up support for it. I'm not > sure what the differences between the 710 and the 720 are. Wide vs. narrow, similar to the differences between the 810 and the 820/825. I ported the AIX 720 driver to run on the 810 equiped PowerPC systems a couple of years ago. Biggest difference was in the configuration. I have data books for the 720, 810, & 825 in case I could help with any specific questions. BTW: I have a vested interest in the NCR driver. My two primary systems here are using them since recently upgrading them to Pentiums. (Also, since I just retired from IBM 4 days ago, I no longer have a conflict of interest. :-) -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net) Austin, TX
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