From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 1 5:12:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman.cs.purdue.edu (newman.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C351215196 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:12:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from splite@cs.purdue.edu) Received: from bugs.cs.purdue.edu (bugs.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.8.30]) by newman.cs.purdue.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/PURDUE_CS-2.0) with ESMTP id IAA28205 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:12:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from splite@localhost) by bugs.cs.purdue.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/PURDUE_CS-2.0) id IAA04851 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:12:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:12:18 -0500 From: Steven Plite To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC Message-ID: <19990401081218.A4803@bugs.cs.purdue.edu> References: <3702E01B.75465F21@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3702E01B.75465F21@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:55:23AM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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