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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!rtech!pacbell.com!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!yale!gumby!destroyer!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!overby From: overby@cray.com (Glen Overby) Subject: Re: Where can I get 386BS Message-ID: <1992Jul6.094335.7603@hemlock.cray.com> Lines: 17 Organization: /dev/null, the place everybody dumps on References: <255.100.uupcb@digund.uucp> Date: 6 Jul 92 09:43:35 CDT In article <255.100.uupcb@digund.uucp> copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) writes: >Anyone working on a `hack' for Always controllers? A year or so ago when I was buying a SCSI drive+controler I contacted Always about technical information on their controler, and they were unwilling to part with any. Not even a register-level description. Always uses a common Western Digital chip, but there's a lot of glue (a good sized PGA) to make it talk to the PC bus. It probably doesn't do much more than connect the WD straight to the buss, maybe with a few KB "window" to allow using a REP MOVS to copy from SCSI to memory. I didn't buy one because I was unwilling to spend the time on reverse engineering their code when what I really wanted was to hack up a driver for Minix. Glen Overby