someone working on fas?

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sat May 10 11:35:44 PDT 2003


On Sat, 10 May 2003, Jake Burkholder wrote:

> Apparently, On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:01:01PM -0700,
> 	Doug White said words to the effect of;
>
> > I'm sure you hear this all the time, but is someone actively working on a
> > driver for the fas SCSI controllers?  If not, then I'll take a crack at it
> > -- I have an Ultra 1 200E, I just need the specs or something to steal
> > from.
> >
> > Hints?
>
> Scott Long is working on it.  The existing amd(4) driver supports similar
> chips and he figured it was easier to write an sbus attachment and deal
> with any differences between different chipsets than to convert the netbsd
> esp driver to cam.  I haven't heard any news recently, he may be interested
> in help or you taking it over :)

amd seems like a wierd driver since its a symbios deriviative, but if I
see scott I'll ping him. Thanks!

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