Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:56:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New experimental SIM for SYM53C8XX chips. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990916224443.1156A-100000@localhost>
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Hello, If you use a SYM53C896 PCI-SCSI controller under FreeBSD-current or=20 under some recent FreeBSD version, you may be interested in the following= =20 stuff: ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/roudier/drivers/freebsd/experimental/SYM-0.0.0-990915= =2Etar.gz This code is EXPERIMENTAL, and some work is probably still needed to make it really reliable, but it performs well for me and I decided to make it available. The history of this driver (named sym_hipd) is the following: ncr -> 1995 Linux ncr53c8xx -> 1998 Linux sym53c8xx -> 1999 sym_hipd=20 This driver uses LOAD/STORE SCSI scripts instructions and so it does not support old 810, 815, (820?) and 825 chips. All other 8XX chips, including the 810A and 825A, are supported.=20 The purpose of this driver is to take advantage of features of recent chips. For this reason, it may drop support for some early chip at any time, if maintaining such a support may add too much complexity to the code. So, a generic driver (the ncr) is needed for the entire 53C8XX family to be supported under FreeBSD. FYI, under Linux: - ncr53c8xx driver supports everything from 810 rev. 1 up to latest 896. - sym53c8xx driver supports only chips that implement LOAD/STORE. G=E9rard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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