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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] Will 7000-FASST2 driver make it for 0.2?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.223922.16162@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <SPERBER.93Jan1162725@annecy.peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 22:39:22 GMT
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- In article <SPERBER.93Jan1162725@annecy.peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> sperber@annecy.peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber) writes:
- >I vaguely recall that someone is working on a 7000 driver for 386BSD.
- >Is there any chance that it will be released in the near future? Will
- >it be part of 386BSD 0.2?
-
- I have a WD7000-FASST2/WD7000-ASC driver that I have written under Julians
- SCSI system. If you also have a WD7000 series card, then you know that the
- wd driver probe routine finds the card, incorrectly identifying it as a
- standard non-SCSI drive. For the purposes of driver coexistance, this is
- unacceptable; however, I haven't been able to get the wd probe routine to
- *NOT* recognize the card without also trashing it's ability to recognize
- several of the RLL controllers in the machines I have access to. I had
- intended to wait until this problem was resolved to release the driver.
-
- The current activities re USL may greatly impact my ability to contribute
- to 386BSD at all; I have already self-censored *major* work I have done with
- the file system, networking, and device driver interfaces because I felt it
- was too close to work in progress for my employer. My WD7000 driver and
- the necessary kernel changes to support it will probably fall victim to
- non-competition.
-
- If anyone else is doing work on a WD7000 driver, I encourage you to continue;
- I will be working on an updated FAQ, issues dealing with internationalization,
- and several other things I find of personal interest in the potentially
- limited time I have left to play around.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
- ---
- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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