Tracking down devices in the Hardware Notes

[Josh Paetzel]

On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:43, you wrote:
> On 2004.08.24 14:41:17 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:11, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > While working on the Harware Notes I have found two device
> > > entries where I can't really determine which driver is supposed
> > > to support them.
> > >
> > > Both were in version 1.1 of common/dev.sgml and not in the old
> > > HARDWARE.TXT.  I also tried grepping in the source tree, but
> > > that hasn't helped in finding in the guilty drivers...  The
> > > devices are:
> > >
> > > Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers
> > > Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers
> >
> > I just popped in disc1 from 4.1-RELEASE/i386 (the oldest CD-ROM
> > set in front of me right now [1]) and both of these devices are
> > mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT as being "not supported by the new CAM
> > subsystem".  This was a time when the release notes listed
> > supported hardware, partially (but not completely) duplicating
> > HARDWARE.TXT.
> >
> > I'm not sure what the state of these devices are now, or what
> > drivers they were mapped to.  But that gives you a pretty good
> > idea how old they are.  If no one speaks up after a suitable
> > amount of time, I'd say just nuke 'em.  :-)
>
> OK, thanks I think I will just poke -current and see if anybody
> knows these devices, and nuke them if not.
>
> > [1]  It still had the shrink wrap on it until ten minutes ago.  I
> > hope this wasn't like cutting the tag off a Beanie Baby.
>
> Hehe :-).

I'm not sure if I'm following this thread correctly. :-/

The Future Domain 850/9** SCSI controllers haven't been supported 
since the 2.x days.  (Not really a big loss, they are 8 bit ISA 
cards)

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel