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From: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD with Adaptec 2940 ?
Date: 28 Aug 1995 13:19:27 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik
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Sender: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst)
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References: <411nk7$7vt@mc3.mcnet.ch> <809170712.20021@paul.demon.co.uk> <41ho0u$31p@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <pope-2808951223210001@pope.edunet.dk>
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In article <pope-2808951223210001@pope.edunet.dk>, pope@edunet.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) writes:
>In article <41ho0u$31p@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
>juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de wrote:
>
>: In article <809170712.20021@paul.demon.co.uk>, paul@paul.demon.co.uk
>(Paul Civati) writes:
>: >Benoit Rossier (Benoit.Rossier@mcnet.ch) wrote:
>: >> Is NetBSD for Intel platform support SCSI card Adaptec 2940 ?
>: >
>: >There is a beta driver for current, yes.
>: >
>: 
>: You can find a really "current" version :-| via anonymous ftp at
>: boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de, directory pub/NetBSD/elchware. I had to
>: modify Stefans version, because there were to many modifications
>: in the current kernel sources.
>
>Is the Adaptec 7850 chip supported ? It is a fast-SCSI controller used on
>many higher end Pentium machines. It is not currently supported by Linux
>so I am considering a switch to netBSD
>

The source code includes a 7xxx assembler. I have added patches so that
this assembler will be used to compile the micro code, if one rebuilds
a kernel.

The Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller has an AIC 7870 chip onboard.

Henry

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