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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!julian From: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: 386BSD/FreeBSD with Future Domain TMC-1680 SCSI Card? Message-ID: <CKq43L.F6F@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA References: <2ir2mq$oq5@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <JKH.94Feb3221349@whisker.hubbard.ie> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 23:33:20 GMT Lines: 25 In article <JKH.94Feb3221349@whisker.hubbard.ie>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie> wrote: >In article <2ir2mq$oq5@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> larsen@OES.ORST.EDU (Scott Larsen) writes: > Any idea if this will ever happen? Is this support in the latest 386BSD, > but not yet in the FreeBSD distribution? > >I'm afraid not. None of us have Future Domain adapters in our >systems, and none of the people who do have thus far offered to write >drivers! :-( > I keep offering people the 98% written 1670 driver that Greg Hosler wrote before he left TFS.COM, but no-one has made it work yet.. when Greg left he had it reading and writing, though writes sometimes were unreliable. The scsi system has evolved a bit since then, (and the 1670 required very low level attention) but surely there is someone who can take this forward? > Jordan julian