Subject: Re: SCSI Controllers [comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc #592]
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/01/1996 09:40:01
I'm working on it...  It's in the very early stages, however...

>------ Forwarded Article <4r5cdn$jc2@library.erc.clarkson.edu>
>------ From shapircs@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Carl S. Shapiro)
>
>James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>
>(stuff cut out)
>
>: None of the free OS's support them AFAIK as all the necessary info is
>: subject to NDA's. However, I remember seeing someone on one of the
>: FreeBSD mailing lists saying they were negotiating with DPT and they
>: thought it looked reasonably promising.
>
>Linux does indeed support the DPT caching SCSI cards.  Juding by the
>comments in the Linux DPT driver source, DTP actually provided some
>measure of assistance.  If somebody actually cares to write a driver for 
>NetBSD/FreeBSD, I would not mind providing assitance in the form of an 
>EISA SmartCache+ card loan/purchase (provided I had some kind of 
>gaurantee of something being produce).  Good Luck.
>
>
>Carl
>
>------ End of Forwarded Article

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