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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD: Bus-logic SCSI supported?
Date: 27 Feb 94 03:37:30 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2klp09$a3p@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:

>michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

>>Which version of NetBSD?  I assume you're asking about NetBSD-0.9.
>>Yes, 0.9 does support BusLogic adaptors, with one reservation.  It
>>will only work with older BusLogic cards because of a new feature in
>>the newer cards that breaks the old driver.

>I don't know what you mean with older or newer cards, but NetBSD0.9
>works perfectly with BT445S cards - with IBM662-12S (1GB) drives, one
>is able to obtain 5MB/s with reads from the raw device.

What's not to understand?  Older firmware doesn't do round-robin by
default so works with the 0.9 driver.  Newer firmware (upper 3.3x
versions) do round-robin by default and break the 0.9 driver.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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