Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:14:44 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tekram DC-390 and 3.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811111546430.24198-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <199811112037.MAA04898@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Before I order one, can anyone verify that the Tekram DC-390
> > controller still works with current?
>
> Which one? There are two basic variants, one using the AMD chip (not
> supported) and one that uses an NCR part (supported fine).
The current incarnations of that card are DC-390, SCSI-2 which
uses the AMD 53c974A chip, and the DC-390U Ultra SCSI and DC-390F
Ultra-Wide SCSI which use the NCR 875.
If the AMD chip is no longer supported may I suggest that the
following be removed from LINT. Or if only the `A' version
of the chip is not supported that that be made clearer.
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# $Id: LINT,v 1.502 1998/11/08 09:57:28 peter Exp $
[snip]
# The `amd' device provides support for the Tekram DC-390 and
390T
# SCSI host adapters, but is expected to work with any AMD 53c974
# PCI SCSI chip and the AMD Ethernet+SCSI Combo chip, after some
# local patches were applied to the sources (that had originally
# been written by Tekram and limited to work with their SCSI
cards).
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and
----
amd0 n/a n/a n/a n/a Tekram DC-390(T) / AMD
53c974 PCI SCSI
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be removed from, or clarified in, HARDWARE.TXT, dated Oct. 16,
1998.
I'm being particularly cautious because the DC-800B, a 1542
compatible card with caching that has worked well with 2.x, will
not work with the current aha.c. And it isn't the timing problem
that was reported. A liberal dose of printf(3)s in aha.c shows
that that dog just ain't gonna hunt. :(
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