Subject: RE: Now Ive gone and done it
To: NetBSD/vax Mailing List <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/05/2000 11:17:28
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Andrew Sporner wrote:
> I may be dreaming, but I had an RF-71 running NetBSD on
> 1.4.2. Perhaps it is because it was running on a controller
> that was not on the CPU? It might be better to say that the
> onboard DSSI controllers aren't supported, rather than the
> stand-along DSSI controller that I had.
If the standalone controller presented the disks as MSCP devices, then
that would explain them being supported. Many (most?) of the Q-bus based
disk controllers bridge between the native bus of the disk drives to MSCP.
-brian.
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