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- From: overby@cray.com (Glen Overby)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Allways IN-2000 SCSI Cont
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.152456.14547@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 20:24:56 GMT
- References: <2192.100.uupcb@digund.uucp>
- Organization: ^$
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- In article <2192.100.uupcb@digund.uucp> copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) writes:
- >Can someone please tell me whether or not 386BSD supports the ALLWAYS
- >IN-2000 controller? Before I download everything Id like to know if
-
- No, the Allways controler is not supported.
-
- A year and a half ago when I was purchasing a SCSI drive and controler, I
- called Allways and asked for technical information on their controler (a
- register-level description would probably be sufficient to write drivers
- for the controler) and was very curteously told "no way".
-
- The controler has a WD SCSI chip, but a LOT of other logic (two PGAs)
- around it. I expect it's a pretty simple controler, but their
- unwillingness to give out details ment that it wouldn't be useful to me (I
- was running only Minix in those days). Reverse-engineering their ROMs is
- always an option.
-
- Glen Overby
-