Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:48:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: urcf@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Rodney C. Forbes) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI info needed. Message-ID: <199602210848.JAA20071@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602210607.BAA01558@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "Rodney C. Forbes" at Feb 21, 96 01:07:26 am
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As Rodney C. Forbes wrote: > > 1. What kind of problems would I be facing regarding using this SCSI > controller/driver to run an all SCSI FreeBSD system? If I It will be as slow as your IDE solution. However, you still get a chance to upgrade to a better controller (and even a very old AHA1540 will do) without throwing away the other equipment. > will need to buy a bus-mastering SCSI controller, I can, but I > would rather not right at this moment. Is there an update to > this driver that would allow me to utilize it's DMA features? Very unlikely. There's too few interest, nobody of the ``classic'' hackers seems to have the hardware and/or time to do it. Of course, you are welcome to imporove it. :) You've got at least two of the missing things, hardware and interest. It looks that the guy who wrote the driver started to think about DMA, but didn't finish it ever. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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