Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:57:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de (Stefan Eggers) Cc: sbabkin@dcn.att.com, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, housley@pr-comm.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: SCSI Controller Message-ID: <199808261257.OAA02770@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199808260956.LAA02792@semyam.dinoco.de> from "Stefan Eggers" at Aug 26, 98 11:55:46 am
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> > > If you're going for low-budget, I'd suggest looking around for NCR > > > (SymBios) based controllers. They're cheap and are rumored to work > > > Symbios is really great and cheap thing. But they are PCI. > > NCR-5380 and NCR-53C400 based cards (our driver for them is named nca) > have their driver under sys/i386/isa. Maybe he thought of these sort > of cards? I have a 53c416 -based card (came with an HP scanner) and symbios is sending me some documentation -- no idea how useful it will be but when it comes i will keep you posted. Hopefully it is not too different from the 53c400 so the nca driver can be adapted (the current one does not detect the board i already tried) On the same topic, I also happen to have an Advansys board, and linux as a driver _supported_ by (hear, hear!) Advansys (see www.advansys.com) I have looked briefly at it but i am a bit uncomfortable in patching the 15K-lines source -- even after trimming out the initial 4K lines of defines and the final 3K for PCI support it is still a lot of code... so by chance has anyone else looked at this code and tried a port to FreeBSD ? luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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