From: "Richard Elberger" <richelbe@richelberger.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] pcmcia scsi support/experience?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:40:51 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JNENKONOPMBLIHLMIJEDIEPACAAA.richelbe@richelberger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010523130248.21311199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Do you mean the technical reference manual for the 1460?
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/suppdetail.html?cat=/Product/APA-14
60&prodkey=APA-1460
http://www.adaptec.com/pdfs/miscellaneous_support/1460_tr.pdf
Not sure if this is what you're looking for.
-- rich
>-----Original Message-----
>From: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu [mailto:9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu]On Behalf
>Of jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
>Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2001 1:03 a.m.
>To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
>Subject: Re: [9fans] pcmcia scsi support/experience?
>
>
>there isn't a current driver that comes close to being appropriate for that
>prehistoric controller. there were some drivers a long time ago,
>perhaps included
>in the 2nd edition, which did all that low-level protocol stuff,
>i'm thinking
>of the chip that was in the magnum (ncr 53c94) and the western-digital
>one used in the hobbit board.
>
>there is apparently a manual for the chip, but you'd have to
>probably contact
>adaptec by phone for a paper copy, i couldn't find it on-line. i'd
>be happy to
>help if there's a manual.
>
>--jim
>
>On Wed May 23 03:54:31 EDT 2001, Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:54:03 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com replied:
>> > On Wed Apr 11 10:51:24 EDT 2001, Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl wrote:
>> > > We are about to order a pcmcia scsi card (to access a zip
>drive, for now).
>> > > Is there support for something like that?
>> > > If not (yet), what could/would be the best bet?
>> > > Do people have experience with such cards (which to buy,
>which to avoid)?
>> > >
>> > > Axel.
>> > >
>> >
>> > There's no support for any PCMCIA SCSI cards. If someone were to do
>> > a driver for the Adaptec 1460 (probably the only card you can get) that
>> > would be great.
>>
>> In the mean time we got the Adaptec 1460. Suppose I would want to do a
>> driver, what existing plan9 code would be the best to start from?
>>
>> Axel.
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-23 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-23 13:02 jmk
2001-05-23 22:40 ` Richard Elberger [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-23 23:00 jmk
2001-04-11 14:57 Russ Cox
2001-04-11 15:03 ` Axel Belinfante
2001-04-11 14:54 jmk
2001-05-23 7:52 ` Axel Belinfante
2001-04-11 14:50 Axel Belinfante
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=JNENKONOPMBLIHLMIJEDIEPACAAA.richelbe@richelberger.com \
--to=richelbe@richelberger.com \
--cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).