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Date:      Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:12:18 -0500
From:      Steven Plite <splite@cs.purdue.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AIC
Message-ID:  <19990401081218.A4803@bugs.cs.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3702E01B.75465F21@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:55:23AM %2B0900
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903311224580.24931-100000@shell2.aracnet.com> <3702E01B.75465F21@newsguy.com>

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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.)


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