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From: hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD: Bus-logic SCSI supported?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 22:02:01 +0100
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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.

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