Jonathan Stone wrote:

> >It depends on collaboration of NetBSD/pmax people.  I'm very sure that
> >DECstation is about to have MI SCSI, at very least, with NCR53C94
> >based systems.  But so-far I have received no response of
> >succeeded/failed experience since I released snap-off source code to
> >enable MI SCSI for 3MAX/3MIN/MAXINE/3MAX+.  As mentioned, QA is
> >essential and it's not likely to have MI SCSI in NetBSD/pmax 1.5 in
> >this development pace.

I'd got as far as successfully booting a 5900/260 with the MI scsi
driver, but I needed to access the Exabyte on that machine to I went
back to the old pmax driver.

> The hard part is reworking the sii driver to do MI scsi.

I've wondered about this a little every now and then.  Can we simply
wrap the sii driver interface into something that MI scsi wants to see,
or is it a much bigger picture than that?

> Its not clear (to me, anyway) that it makes sense to ship MI scsi on
> the 53c94 machines, and the old 4.4bsd scsi on the sii machines.
> (nb: 1.5 will include support for the 5100 as well as the 3100/2100).
> 
> Think what that'd mean for the install docs, for starters.

Ouch...

Simon.