Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:31:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: mercierm@bose.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Better scsi and e-net support... Message-ID: <199511282031.NAA21979@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511280214.SAA22317@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 27, 95 06:14:30 pm
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> > Sorry to be a jerk, but I find it hard to believe that there are more people > > out in the US that have a Compaq DeskPro XL or an HP Vectra XU that use the > > AMD PCI PCnet / PCscsi controller, other than myself. (since it is > > integrated into the motherboard) > > never heard of it... > What drivers we have is dependent on what hardware is owned by > people who write drivers.. It appears that none of these people > have the AMD mumble chips :| It's a $35 part (qty 1000) that has both an ethernet and SCSI controller in it. If it hadn't been so hyped and preannounced and delayed, it might have even been the IDE killer it claimed to be. I'm not sure without his part number, but the one I saw press on had direct interface via PCI. Supposedly, both parts, as long as you know the IRQ, BASE, and DMA, will work with existing drivers for other AMD chips (which we already have in FreeBSD). The trick is knowing what to tell the drivers, and which drivers to use when you boot "kernel -c". Finding that out is really his problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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