On Oct 18,  3:05pm, N P Haines wrote:
> Subject: SCSI I cards and PowerROMs
> Hi,
>
> I have an Old Cumana SCSI I card with a CD ROM on it. I believe from what I
have
> read and from trying on my own that RiscBSD doesn't currently support this
card?
> THe onyl reason I ask now is that I would like to upgrade to 1.2 but I would
> really like it on CD not on floppy disks again... so I was wondering if there
is
> the possibility of this card being supported in the future... or as an
> alternative I see that PowerTec have released PowerROM (or soemthing similar)
> which replaces the ROM on any current SCSI I to give it the funcionality of a
> PowerTec card.... I don't know what extent it upgrades teh card cos it
doesn't
> explain in a great deal of detail... but does anyone know if getting this
would
> let BSD recognise my SCSI card, cos it is a lot cheaper that a new one ;)

Well, getting a SCSI driver working relies on someone who has one being willing
to write a driver because none of the core team have access to such a beast. As
far as I know the PowerROM is merely a replacement for the RiscOS drivers so
will have absolutely zero effect on the RiscBSD support. It might be worth
checking whether the Cumana SCSI I card uses the same chipset as the Acorn SCSI
I because if it does hacking together a driver should be fairly trivial.

As far as getting RiscBSD on CDROM is concerned the CD is RiscOS-readable so
you could pull the sets off the CD under RiscOS and put them into a RiscBSD
directory using UnixFS.

Cheers

Rob

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