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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!news From: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) Subject: Re: aha2742. why no 386bsd driver soon. Message-ID: <CIF0Ly.AG@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: dialup-1-56.gw.umn.edu Reply-To: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) Organization: The Minnesota Daily X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.00 References: <CHwJ63.JJp@rahul.net> <2f7ro3$hoj@email.tuwien.ac.at> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 02:31:08 GMT Lines: 22 In <2f7ro3$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.