From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 30 10:31:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA29450 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 10:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29444 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 10:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aj12798; 30 Jun 96 17:08 +0100 Received: from am221.du.pipex.com ([193.130.252.221]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa01237; 30 Jun 96 16:59 +0100 Received: (from james@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01382; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:53:34 GMT Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:53:34 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199606301553.PAA01382@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: DPT SCSI Controllers Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc In-Reply-To: <4r5cdn$jc2@library.erc.clarkson.edu> Organization: A FreeBSD Box Cc: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has any progress been made on supporting these? This sounds like too good an offer to pass up! ------- start of forwarded message ------- From: shapircs@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Carl S. Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI Controllers Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 30 Jun 1996 08:04:07 GMT Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4r5cdn$jc2@library.erc.clarkson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fire.camp.clarkson.edu James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote: (stuff cut out) : None of the free OS's support them AFAIK as all the necessary info is : subject to NDA's. However, I remember seeing someone on one of the : FreeBSD mailing lists saying they were negotiating with DPT and they : thought it looked reasonably promising. Linux does indeed support the DPT caching SCSI cards. Juding by the comments in the Linux DPT driver source, DTP actually provided some measure of assistance. If somebody actually cares to write a driver for NetBSD/FreeBSD, I would not mind providing assitance in the form of an EISA SmartCache+ card loan/purchase (provided I had some kind of gaurantee of something being produce). Good Luck. Carl ------- end of forwarded message -------