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#! rnews 1932 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!news.charm.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!connix.com!chardos.connix.com!not-for-mail From: James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Subject: DPT SCSI Controllers Message-ID: <199606301553.PAA01382@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:53:34 GMT Lines: 34 Organization: Chardos Mail2News Gateway Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22587 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3898 Has any progress been made on supporting these? This sounds like too good an offer to pass up! ------- start of forwarded message ------- From: shapircs@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Carl S. Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI Controllers Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 30 Jun 1996 08:04:07 GMT Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4r5cdn$jc2@library.erc.clarkson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fire.camp.clarkson.edu James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote: (stuff cut out) : None of the free OS's support them AFAIK as all the necessary info is : subject to NDA's. However, I remember seeing someone on one of the : FreeBSD mailing lists saying they were negotiating with DPT and they : thought it looked reasonably promising. Linux does indeed support the DPT caching SCSI cards. Juding by the comments in the Linux DPT driver source, DTP actually provided some measure of assistance. If somebody actually cares to write a driver for NetBSD/FreeBSD, I would not mind providing assitance in the form of an EISA SmartCache+ card loan/purchase (provided I had some kind of gaurantee of something being produce). Good Luck. Carl ------- end of forwarded message -------