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>