Subject: Re: Compatible SCSI cards
To: NetBSD/cobalt <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Dainty <matt@bodgit-n-scarper.com>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 03/07/2004 20:34:55
* Brian <bmcewen@comcast.net> [2004-03-07 20:18:27]:
> 
> I'm not sure what "simple" means :)

Oh I meant just dumb SCSI cards, no BIOS, etc. I guess one with a BIOS
would work, just unnecessary :-)

> The "QubeQuorner" FAQ lists several models of older card that work with 
> the CobaltOS in the Qube, per my post the other week I've got one 
> installed and a kernel compiled under NetBSD but it produces a constant 
> mesg which may or may not be normal.  I thought I had time to actually 
> put a drive on there this weekend but it is not going to happen.
> 
> The FAQ is at <http://weblogs.userland.com/qube/faq/> and the SCSI card 
> question is the very last one. YES it talks about  Cobalt driver 
> support but it has to be compatible hardware, whether there is NetBSD 
> support or not it's hard to research, the SCSI compatibilty of NetBSD 
> isn't documented readily anywhere I looked, more info is available 
> about compatible tape drives etc than PCI card models.

Thanks for the pointer, I guess an Adaptec 2904 would work as nearly all
recent Adaptec cards all use the same driver, (ahc(4) IIRC). I have
2940UW and 2940U2W cards but these are too long for the case, and I
don't feel like cutting them to fit ;-)

Matt
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