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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD: Bus-logic SCSI supported? Date: 27 Feb 94 03:37:30 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 22 Message-ID: <michaelv.762320250@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <CLB4v2.Loq@cix.compulink.co.uk> <michaelv.761933654@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <2klp09$a3p@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <2klp09$a3p@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: >michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >>Which version of NetBSD? I assume you're asking about NetBSD-0.9. >>Yes, 0.9 does support BusLogic adaptors, with one reservation. It >>will only work with older BusLogic cards because of a new feature in >>the newer cards that breaks the old driver. >I don't know what you mean with older or newer cards, but NetBSD0.9 >works perfectly with BT445S cards - with IBM662-12S (1GB) drives, one >is able to obtain 5MB/s with reads from the raw device. What's not to understand? Older firmware doesn't do round-robin by default so works with the 0.9 driver. Newer firmware (upper 3.3x versions) do round-robin by default and break the 0.9 driver. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------