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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5R and EXB-8200 hangs on write
Date: 16 Mar 1997 12:42:19 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) wrote:

> For grins, I tried '/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/aic6360.c' from 2.2-GAMMA,
> but no luck.

Of course, nobody seems to ever have finished development on this
driver (``Use DMA ... (not yet!)''), let alone maintaining it.  It
seems to stem from NetBSD, but last time i looked, it was in a similar
state there as well.

We need an aic maintainer.  Interested? :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)