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From: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner)
Subject: Re: aha2742. why no 386bsd driver soon.
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In <2f7ro3$hoj@email.tuwien.ac.at>, rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer) writes:
>> >Finally, another vote for BusLogic from me.  I will give my business,
>> >and our clients, to them whenever possible.
>> >Peter Dufault               Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
>> >HD Associates, Inc.         Voice: 508 433 6936
>> >hd@world.std.com            Fax:   508 433 5267
>What about DPT? I am currently in the process of deciding on an EISA
>SCSI controller and I noticed that drivers for the DPT controllers
>seem to be missing in both the free BSD variants and Linux (they are
>well-supported by commercial OS's).
>Is DPT withholding information in a way similar to Adaptec, or is it
>just because nobody found the time to write a driver yet?
You can get FULL information on the DPT controllers just by calling their
BBS.  They even include source code in both C and ASM (for x86).

Even tbough DPT is THE recommended controller for both NeXTSTEP FIP
and SCO Unix, nobody seems to have written one for BSD.

Oh well.
Rick W.