by Has any progress been made on supporting these? This sounds like too
good an offer to pass up!
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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
NNTP-Posting-Host: fire.camp.clarkson.edu
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: 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
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