Subject: Re: Quadra 840av support
To: None <ender@macbsd.com>
From: David Johnston <david@canopus.apana.org.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/05/2000 14:23:40
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 06:23:18PM -0800, Colin Wood wrote:
> David Johnston wrote:
> > How much effort would be involved in getting DMA SCSI to work? Do you know
> > if anyone is working on it?
> 
> i'd say a fair amount of effort might be required, as you'd have to
> figure out how to access the PSC to get it to do the SCSI transfers.  we
> should already have DMA code for the esp driver written (the sparc port
> has this, right?).  if you're willing to totally screw up a hard drive
> (not permanently, but certainly for the short term ;-), i'd say go for it.

I'll give it a go. I can't promise results.

Who would be the relevant experts on the 840av/660av DMA code and the sparc
esp DMA SCSI driver? I'm going to have questions...

    david

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David Johnston
david@canopus.apana.org.au