Subject: Re: SCSI host adaptors (was EISA ProSignia Install)
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@NetBSD.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/09/2003 23:40:19
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:10:41PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:12:03AM -0400, ball@cyberspace.org wrote:
> > It has just occurred to me that I may be able to swap the
> > SCSI host adaptor out for something that is supported.  EISA
> > ones are probably pretty thin on the ground these days, but
> > I may be able to find an ISA card.  The supported device
> > lists on the NetBSD Web site are definitely helpful, but I
> > would like to supplement that with some opinions from people
> > here on the list: what EISA or ISA SCSI host adaptors have
> > you found to work well with NetBSD?  Which ones are best
> 
> The BusLogic (bha driver) and Adaptec (ahc driver) cards should
> work well.. as I recall, the original NetBSD mail server machine ran
> on bha @ eisa, but that was a long time ago :-) ahc @ eisa has recently
> been confirmed as (still) working.

VMware emulates a bha @ isa, and NetBSD 1.6.1 and -current from a few
months back work just fine as VMware guests using that emulation.

Regards,
Alistair
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Alistair Crooks                                  <agc@wasabisystems.com>
Wasabi Systems, Inc.                       http://www.wasabisystems.com/