Subject: Re: SCSI controler support
To: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/18/2001 23:27:15
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:22:21AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:

 > This makes me nervous, works if I patch it up right, but I don't yet have a
 > NetBSD installation to prepare and compile the patch(?)  With current old

No, you don't have to write the patch :-)  Someone (like myself) could
do it, and ask you to test a kernel :-)

 > computer, there is doubt as to whether the Texel internal SCSI 2x CD-ROM drive
 > would be able to read NetBSD CDRs.  I am not sure about the difference between
 > CDR and CD-ROM, referring to the disk; my Texel CD-ROM drive reads those
 > Bell South Internet and AOL CDs, and the Linux Slackware CD-ROMs, subject to
 > DOS's lack of support for long file names.
 > 
 > Are there any modern PCI SCSI controllers that would use NCR5380 driver?
 > Trantor T130B dates to pre-PCI days: ISA, 8-bit, 50-pin internal connector and
 > 25-pin external connector, just right for Iomega external SCSI Zip 100 and 250
 > drives.

There are no modern SCSI controllers that use the 5380.  The 5380 is a
*VERY* old chip.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>