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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Microchannel Support Date: 27 Jul 1994 21:59:52 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 25 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Jul27175952@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <3169ik$lah@portal.gmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: ssedlmey@mason1.gmu.edu's message of 27 Jul 1994 18:38:12 GMT In article <3169ik$lah@portal.gmu.edu> ssedlmey@mason1.gmu.edu (Steven P Sedlmeyer) writes: Do FreeBSD or NetBSD currently provide MicroChannel support? Not that I'm aware of. If not, are there any plans to add support in the future? It's mainly a matter of writing drivers for MCA disk controllers. The existing Adaptec and BusLogic drivers should help a great deal with writing SCSI drivers (or just modifying the existing ones) for the MCA versions of the same boards. I suspect ST506/IDE/ESDI disks would require all new code. In all, it's not much work; somebody just has to sit down with the appropriate specs and do it. Personally, it's not even on my list, since MCA seems to have no future, and few people have actually asked. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sun4c, mac68k, pc532, da30. In progress: sun3, pmax, vax, sun4m.