From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 12:37:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA03207 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:37:19 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA03198 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:37:06 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA21979; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:31:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511282031.NAA21979@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Better scsi and e-net support... To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:31:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: mercierm@bose.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511280214.SAA22317@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 27, 95 06:14:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1187 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Sorry to be a jerk, but I find it hard to believe that there are more people > > out in the US that have a Compaq DeskPro XL or an HP Vectra XU that use the > > AMD PCI PCnet / PCscsi controller, other than myself. (since it is > > integrated into the motherboard) > > never heard of it... > What drivers we have is dependent on what hardware is owned by > people who write drivers.. It appears that none of these people > have the AMD mumble chips :| It's a $35 part (qty 1000) that has both an ethernet and SCSI controller in it. If it hadn't been so hyped and preannounced and delayed, it might have even been the IDE killer it claimed to be. I'm not sure without his part number, but the one I saw press on had direct interface via PCI. Supposedly, both parts, as long as you know the IRQ, BASE, and DMA, will work with existing drivers for other AMD chips (which we already have in FreeBSD). The trick is knowing what to tell the drivers, and which drivers to use when you boot "kernel -c". Finding that out is really his problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.