On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:27:02AM -0800, Thomas Dzubin wrote:
> 
> > Will DSSI ever work with NetBSD?
> Not in the near future and possibly never. DSSI is a only different 
> physical interface for CI. I.e. it is the same as the big star coupler 
> coax cable based CI found on big VAXen, only with a "cheap" physical
> interface. If we want support for DSSI disks, we have to implement a 
> complete CI framework. This is doable, but it will be a big task and 
> we would need documentation about CI and the accompanying protocols.
> This stuff is made out of solid unobtainium. I had to learn this 
> when I tried st start with DSSI support... 

The best (and perhaps only) realistic approach is to free the Ultrix
source, and use the mscp framework from there. Then we'd have the DSSI, CI
and everything else supported right away.

I've looked some at it, and if I had some time (and someone more to help
out), I'd do the porting. But until the Ultrix sources are free to use,
this will not become available with NetBSD.

	Johnny

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