From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 10:02:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04348 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webserve.net (allah@mercury.webserve.net [206.96.226.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03735; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allah@mercury.webserve.net) Received: from localhost (allah@localhost) by mercury.webserve.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA09591; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:58:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:58:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Ray Black To: Greg Lehey cc: Doug White , Stefan Esser , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NCR 53c710 Fast-SCSI-2 controller (was: Hardware Support) In-Reply-To: <19980524162535.A419@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA03736 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 24 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 1998 at 23:35:36 -0700, Doug White wrote: > > > > My guesses are as follows: > > . Those who are capable of programming for this card don't have a card > > handy to hack with. > > . Until recently Compaq products were lameducks because their Ethernet > > cards weren't supported either. Now that there is a driver for their > > NICs it may spur someone to undertake a development effor. > > >> I'm far from a great programmer, but if someone would point me to > >> info on how to write device drivers, I'd do what I could to make > >> that sucker work. > > Talk to Stefan Eßer, who is responsible for the NCR driver. He'll > probably be interested if you can help with the testing. I've copied > him on this message. I'd love to help w/ the testing. If, as mentioned as a possibility above, Stefan doesn't have a card handy, I've got a 53c710 I'd be more than willing to send to him. It is, of course, EISA, so having a system w/ that bus would be a prerequisite. Thank you all for the dialog on the subject. I've been floating through mailing-list/usenet archives the past month trying to find references to the card, and have been largely unable to find anything productive. This has been a great boon to my dreams of making use of the machine. Thanks again. Ray Black, III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message