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From: j.s.greenland@eee.salford.ac.uk
Subject: installing on a micropolis drive with a future domain SCSI controller
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I have a friend who wants to install NetBSD on his 486DLC system.  
He wants to install it to a micropolis 150 Meg SCSI drive which is 
being run from a controller using the Future Domain TMC950 chip.  
To all intents and purposes it is a Future Domain controller.
Obviously the NetBSD 0.9 install disks do not recognise his controller
as its not an Adaptatec.  The question is is it possible to install NetBSD
using this controller at all.  Neither of us has enough knowledge to write
our own driver for the card.  Is there a driver out ther for the controller
or type of controller.  If so we could mount the SCSI drive from my IDE 
drive with NetBSD already installed and install from there or something
I'm not sure on the matter

Suggestions/help would be extremely useful on this one ..

Thanx in advance

Jake greenland