From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Sep 16 20:14:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24509 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24429 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:14:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02075; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809170319.UAA02075@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Steve Friedrich" cc: "freebsd-scsi" Subject: Re: old SCSI vs CAM In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:16:35 EDT." <199809170016.UAA16372@laker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:19:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I am pretty new to FreeBSD, but have been around unix awhile. > > I am currently running 2.2.7 STABLE and I believe that in the near > future, CAM is going to affect me. > > I have a CD-ROM attached to a MediaVision PAS16 using the nca driver. > I believe that when CAM gets rolled into STABLE, I'll lose the nca > driver... Am I right ?? This won't be catastrophic for me, it will > just be something to address. I'd hope that someone would whack > together a CAM version of nca... But I can understand if you don't want > to bother. CAM won't be rolled into -stable. It's likely to continue to continue to exist as a set of patches against -stable though. It's unlikely that an nca driver will be written for CAM unless someone becomes wildly enthusiastic about it; the 53c80 family really don't feature on anyones' map as a major SCSI controller solution these days. Without someone with a strong agenda featuring this family and a wide variety of implementations (there are probably half a dozen significantly different ways you can integrate one of these controllers into an ISA system) I'd say you can write the 'nca' driver off with the 2.2 family. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message