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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Driver for 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Oct14.013923.26186@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Oct13.174114.19301@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:39:23 GMT Lines: 26 A Wizard of Earth C (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: : : Yes. But like the Am33C93A, it doesn't matter about the chip; what matters : is the DMA and control interface. In the case of the WD7000-FASST2, for : instance, this is a register interface to a Z80. You *never* get to talk : to the chip directly. I suspect the same will be true of other cards as : well. Maybe it is true for intelligent SCSI cards like Adaptec 1542, but for a cheap SCSI card like pro-16, it may not be. The SCSI protocol is supported by that Zilog chip. : : What you will need will be a programming guide for the board which includes : formatting and issuing SCSI commands; this will probably have to come from : the manufacturer. : IF it were a dump SCSI card, what we have to do is to identify where the registers for the Z5380 are, trial and error. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet