From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 1 9:27:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3325154D8 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:27:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id CAA28799; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 02:27:19 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3703A923.7F5810EF@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 02:13:07 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Plite Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC References: <3702E01B.75465F21@newsguy.com> <19990401081218.A4803@bugs.cs.purdue.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steven Plite wrote: > > > 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... I meant that there are no alternatives available in 3.x. > 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.) It seems programming manuals for the AIC 6[23]60 are also available, and there is even a FreeBSD driver for it... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message