Subject: RE: Now Ive gone and done it
To: NetBSD/vax Mailing List <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Sporner <andy.sporner@networkengines.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/05/2000 12:27:54
That would make sense--and yes I think this was the case...

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Chase [mailto:bdc@world.std.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:17 PM
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> Subject: RE: Now Ive gone and done it
> 
> 
> 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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