Subject: Re: Hardware support
To: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/12/1997 13:47:23
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> Does anyone know what it would take to supprot one of the new AdaptecSCSI
> controllers, the AVA-1505 (I think that's its number). It's a very
> affordable, probably no super-fast controller.

Hmm, is that really new? I seem to remember hearing about it over a year
ago... you might try the aic driver, although the when I tried it around
January '96 (with an AVA-1515), it configured the card, but probed the
SCSI devices strangely. Nonexistant SCSI devices would show up on a LUN,
sometimes the ID string of the drive would be garbled. Trying to access a
real device would fail too.

> Also, what non-SCSI tape options are there? I see in the hardware notes
> that tape-through-the-floppy isn't supported.

Don't know much about this one... there's a "wt" driver for "Archive and
Wangtek QIC tape drives". I have no idea exactly what those are though :)
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