From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:21:09 -0400
From: Stephen Hocking sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au
Subject: adaptec aha-2940
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> Hi,
> 
> We have a few Gateway machines with Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI Master
> controllers.  So far as I can tell, Plan9 doesn''t seem to be happily
> recognizing them.  Can anybody give me any advice on where to go from
> here?  I'm willing to spend up to say 5*20 hours writing a device
> driver (Mountain Dew, yummy) if that is the best route.  Advice as to
> which parts of the source I can cut and paste, potential similarities
> with say the 1542, etc etc would be much appreciated.  Thanks.

Many of the free UN*X clones have drivers for this beast - the one for FreeBSD 
is particularly good. Found in all the usual  places (ftp.cdrom.com, which 
happens to be a FreeBSD machine)
> 
> Please reply via e-mail and through the newsgroup (just in case our
> newsreader chokes),
> 
> nate
> 
> 

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