On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:27:20AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
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> from Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>:
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> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:33:23AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
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>  > 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?
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> >Well, NetBSD certainly supports it... it's the only SCSI available on many
> >systems that NetBSD runs on!
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> You mean NCR 5380 SCSI chip is still fairly widely in use?  I think FreeBSD

As far as I know it's not used in current productions. But a lot of
old machines that NetBSD supports (vax, sun3, sun4, some arm, mac68k, news68k,
pc532, vax) uses it.

> supported this chip in their older SCSI subsystem but not after they changes to
> a newer system.  Are those NetBSD systems installed from CD that runs on
> NCR 5380 SCSI?

I think some of them do, yes.

> 
> >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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> You mean the really old CD-ROM drives will read modern CDRs?  Is there a
> difference between various types of CD as far as an old CD-ROM drive is
> concerned?  I'm wondering if that old Texel 2x CD-ROM drive will read the
> NetBSD CDs.

I've never had problems with CDR on old CDROM drives, as long as the session
on the CDR is closed (old drives don't like multisession CDs), but some
of them don't want to read CD-RW.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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