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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DPT SCSI Adaptor,possible?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:44:43 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Hans Petter Fasteng <hansf@kfaserv1.kfdata.no>

Hans Petter Fasteng wrote:
> : Since the core developers have neither the time nor the hardware
> : resources (we don't own DPT controllers or there would probably be
> : driver support already! :-) to do this, it probably won't happen any
> : other way! :-(
> 
>   Where wold you find (if any) documentation for doing sutch work on
> FreeBSD?

Well, first you'd need to find a friendly ear somewhere at DPT to give
you the technical specifications for the board - where its control
regisers are, how its mailboxes work, etc.  Then, if you're like every
other driver writer, you look at 2 or 3 existing examples and then clone
the one you like best.. :-)
-- 
	- Jordan Hubbard
	  President, FreeBSD Project