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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!library.erc.clarkson.edu!shapircs From: shapircs@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Carl S. Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI Controllers Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 30 Jun 1996 08:04:07 GMT Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4r5cdn$jc2@library.erc.clarkson.edu> References: <4qqboq$bi@anorak.coverform.lan> <4r0h8n$7d@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fire.camp.clarkson.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22484 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3894 James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote: (stuff cut out) : None of the free OS's support them AFAIK as all the necessary info is : subject to NDA's. However, I remember seeing someone on one of the : FreeBSD mailing lists saying they were negotiating with DPT and they : thought it looked reasonably promising. Linux does indeed support the DPT caching SCSI cards. Juding by the comments in the Linux DPT driver source, DTP actually provided some measure of assistance. If somebody actually cares to write a driver for NetBSD/FreeBSD, I would not mind providing assitance in the form of an EISA SmartCache+ card loan/purchase (provided I had some kind of gaurantee of something being produce). Good Luck. Carl