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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!hod From: hod@alumni.cco.caltech.edu (Hod Greeley) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: PCI Date: 28 Jun 1994 05:02:20 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology CCO Unix cluster Lines: 24 Message-ID: <HOD.94Jun27220220@alumni.cco.caltech.edu> References: <Crxp5t.10IB@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu In-reply-to: sandylam@lamar.ColoState.EDU's message of Sat, 25 Jun 1994 03:46:41 GMT Working on what aspect? I just bought a PCI system. I'm interested in working on a driver for the Qlogic SCSI board. Here's what I posted to the freebsd-hackers list: --------------- Hi, I'm about to put together a system and plan to run FreeBSD on it. Qlogic has come out recently with some new SCSI adaptors based on their own proprietary chip set, and I was thinking of buying one. From what I've dug up so far, people are working on drivers for the EISA and VLB versions, but not the PCI. Given that, I have a few questions. What's involved in writing a new driver? Is writing the driver a matter of improving the performance over a generic driver, or does the card require a cutsom driver just to run? How much support are people getting from Qlogic? Given that will be my only SCSI card, is it feasible to write the driver, that is, if I can't run the card using some other driver, can I undertake writing one while stuck with MS-DOS or Windows or whatever? Thanks. Hod hod@psgvb.com