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- From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
- Subject: Re: WD7000? (answers) info on SCSI project.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.055254.18730@tfs.com>
- Summary: SCSI DRIVER PROJECT
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
- References: <1992Aug30.015113.20172@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 05:52:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug30.015113.20172@ctr.columbia.edu> vikki@e40-008-9.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:
- >Hi Everyone!
- >
- > I'm all set to go out and get an Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter or an
- >AHA1740 to run in 1542 mode, but I thought I'd ask the net first if anyone's
- >heard of any effort to write a 386BSD driver for the Western Digital
- >WD7000-FASST2 SCSI adapter. I'm using one now with Esix SvsV R3.2D and a big
- >Maxtor disk. I've never been overly thrilled by it though because there's no
- >boot driver for it - I have to boot from an IDE disk and mount the Maxtor
- >afterwards... I feel like it might a good time to break down and get the
- >Adaptec card, unless..... Someone is working on a driver for the WD7000? :-)
- >Much thanks to all of you!
- >
- >-John
- >jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu
- >
- >
-
- In answer to this question:
- Yes there is work under way for a WD7000 driver.
- It is part of a loosely organised project to write a coherent scsi
- subsystem for 386bsd.
- The first driver completed is the
- adaptec 1542B (now in ALPHA testing (even boots!))
-
- Scsi boards having drivers written for them include:
- -------------------------------------------------------
- Adaptec 1542B -completed and in alpha
- Adaptec 1542a -I am investigating the differences with the
- 1542B and may produce a 'variant' driver if it seems
- feasible.
- Adaptec 1522 -one person has expressed interest in doing this
- -present status unknown.
- WD7000 -probing, latest status unknown
- ST01/ST02 -Being ported from a working driver
- Future Domain -two people starting on this one this week
- Bustek 742a -basically completed, I can't test it yet.(native 32bit mode)
- -(I don't have and EISA 386bsd machine ready yet)(next week)
- Adaptec 1740 -I have the docs and expect to do it in the next few weeks
-
- scsi devices with modules being written:
- -------------------------------------------------------
- scsi disk -in alpha. boots and runs. sometimes crashes in disklabel?
- scsi tape -in alpha.
- -runs on:
- cypher 3480 compatible drive
- exabyte 8200
- Wangdat 1300 DAT drive
- -being tested on:
- Archive Viper (minor bugs)
-
- scsi cdrom -not supported, will someone write one?
- -use PACE's as a guide.
-
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-
- support code:
- -------------------------------------------------------
- BIOS enabled boot blocks. able to boot on any device that has BIOS roms
- - I'm getting creamed by this one 8-)
- SCSI badblocking utility: (tell the drive to map out bad blocks)
- -I don't have any bad blocks.. when I do it'll appear 8-)
- ENHANCED scsi tape utility.. knows about extended tape support
- - e.g. setting densities on 9-track etc. -planned-
-
- If any people have updates on the status of these projects could they
- let me know? If anyone knows of people working on OTHER drivers could
- you also let me know.
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