On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:33:23AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:

 > Maybe there are not many NCR 5380 SCSI cards still in use?  Might that be why
 > FreeBSD and OpenBSD don't support this chip and Linux support is unstable?

Well, NetBSD certainly supports it... it's the only SCSI available on many
systems that NetBSD runs on!

 > I still am not sure if the old Texel CD-ROM would read NetBSD CDs even with the
 > proper SCSI support, an issue of compatibliity of newer CDs with old CD-ROM
 > drives.  Maybe some CDs but not others?  If I want to preview NetBSD 1.5.1 on
 > this old computer, I could possibly do a DOS-based scripted FTP download with
 > 56K modem; currently running DR-DOS 7.03.

Uh, I haven't heard of that -- I have some REALLY old CD-ROM drives that
can read modern CDs just fine.

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