Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro 5/90XL with NetBSD 1.1?
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@cloud9.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/01/1995 15:16:37
Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
> Are you sure the Deskpro 5/90XL uses one of the supported SCSI host adapters?

It isn't, but more than that, I'm really surprised he tried to use the
INSTADP disk, which explictly only handles the Adaptec stuff.

> I notice that the boot process finds an AMD PCnet-PCI onboard.  Is
> it possible that the machine uses the PCnet+SCSI, which has both a
> PCnet-PCI and AMD's new PCI SCSI host adapter on one chip?
[...]
> We don't have support for that SCSI chip,

It's a shame; it would be neat to have support. Does any other free OS
support it? We could steal the driver...

.pm