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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: WD7000-FASST2 SCSI?
Message-ID: <1992Aug30.203103.22324@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <1992Aug30.015113.20172@ctr.columbia.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 20:31:03 GMT
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In article <1992Aug30.015113.20172@ctr.columbia.edu> vikki@e40-008-9.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:
>Hi Everyone!
>
> I'm all set to go out and get an Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter or an
>AHA1740 to run in 1542 mode, but I thought I'd ask the net first if anyone's
>heard of any effort to write a 386BSD driver for the Western Digital
>WD7000-FASST2 SCSI adapter. I'm using one now with Esix SvsV R3.2D and a big
>Maxtor disk. I've never been overly thrilled by it though because there's no
>boot driver for it - I have to boot from an IDE disk and mount the Maxtor
>afterwards... I feel like it might a good time to break down and get the
>Adaptec card, unless..... Someone is working on a driver for the WD7000? :-)
>Much thanks to all of you!
I'm in the midst of writing a driver for the Am33C93A Enhanced SCSI-Bus
Interface Controller. This is *not* a commitment to finish it! It is
being built to run under julian@tfs.COM (Julian Elischer's) modular SCSI
system, which is currently in alpha (not even beta yet).
Since I'm not using "Advanced mode" commands, it should run a WD7000-FASST2
with no problems (ie: it should be chip-compatable with the non-AMD device).
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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