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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:13:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        wayne@msen.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980728001025.6519A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0z12NL-0003cUC@ilium.troy.msen.com>

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the buslogic cards that conform to the first buslogic interface,
e.g. 946C 742, 747, 542, 
do all that transparently..
(sync etc.)

The newest cards which conform to their new interface are only supported
by the new CAM layer..


julian


On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 wayne@msen.com wrote:

> 
> We have number of machines running BSD/OS with likely every model of
> BusLogic controller ever made.  We've started to move services to
> FreeBSD and I finally took a good, long look at the driver code for
> these cards.  It's highly incomplete (no support for Sync, Fast, Ultra,
> etc.) In another life, I'd offer to spend the time writing a real
> driver but that's not an option for a while.  While it would be fairly
> easy to do some upgrades, real performance will require quite a bit
> of work.
> 
> Is there ANY active development going on for this product line or
> should I just go out and buy Adaptec cards?  There's no way I'm going
> to run a news transit server that lives in the freenix top 300 in async
> SCSI mode!
> 
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