Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:12:18 -0500 From: Steven Plite <splite@cs.purdue.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC Message-ID: <19990401081218.A4803@bugs.cs.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <3702E01B.75465F21@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:55:23AM %2B0900 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903311224580.24931-100000@shell2.aracnet.com> <3702E01B.75465F21@newsguy.com>
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On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:55:23AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Brian Beattie wrote: > > > > > writing it would be a pain) because the only pccard scsi cards that are > > > out there are aic-6[23]60 based. > > > > Not having a pcmcia slot or card, I am not sure about support for this. > > Once aic6[23]60 is working, the PCMCIA stuff is easily done. > > > > However, the sad fact is that the development is less than active on this > > > driver. > > > > It is a fact, sad? Im not sure. except for the pccard stuff there is much > > better stuff than the 6x60 based hardware. > > But there are *no* alternatives for notebooks, except parallel port > SCSI. This isn't true. The 3.0 version of Newtek's Bus Toaster uses a Symbios 53C500 chip. I think Newtek still makes them... Granted, we don't have a driver for that controller either, but the programming manual is readily available from LSI Logic. Seems to me that NetBSD has a driver for it, based on a Linux driver. (Been a while since I looked into it, so I may be misremembering.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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