Subject: Re: which kernel for Quadra 605
To: Steve Revilak <revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/27/1999 21:27:47
At 15:59 Uhr +0200 27.04.1999, Steve Revilak wrote:

>Welcome.  I'll vouch for NetBSD running on a quadra 605 with a full
>68040 (68RC040 is the actual model number) -- it's been doing well for
>me for the last year and a half or so.  I have NetBSD 1.3.2 and I'm
>using a GENERIC-SBC kernel.  "SBC" referes to the SCSI driver it uses --
>it seems to like my quantum fireball a little better.

Not quite: The "sbc" driver - and alternatively the "ncrscsi" driver -
deals with the older ncr53c80 controller (all '030 machines, the 040
Powerbooks) whereas the "esp" driver controls the ncr53c96 chip present in
the Quadra and Centris models.

	hauke


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