On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
Hello John, I have a Sumo that you can borrow or buy. Are you still at
36 Cardinal?
Related topic: If anyone has a 53C80 in the 44pin PLCC package that they
are willing to part with, I am interested in getting one. E-mail me.
- don
> Hi!
>
> (I think this is old enough hardware to be on topic.)
>
> In my off hours, I'm trying to put together a driver for NCR53C80-based
> SCSI controllers for it i386 port of NetBSD. (For those who know NetBSD,
> I'm doing some patches to the MI 5380 driver and writing an i386 MD
> front end.)
>
> I have it working with the very dumb Chinon controller (non-bootable,
> no IRQ- polled only), but was trying to set up a test box with a card
> capable of being interrupt driven and (ultimately) bootable. Unfortunately,
> my ancient SUMO SCSI-AT seems to have given up the ghost as it will no
> longer detect any connected drives and seems to actively screw up the
> bootting of floppies from another card.
>
> So, I was wondering if one of you might be able to loan (or cheaply sell)
> me a spare NCR53C80-based SCSI card. I guess I would ideally be looking
> for another SUMO or similar card. My second choice would be a Trantor
> T130 with boot ROM. I am, however, open to other suggestions.
>
> Thanks...
> <<<john>>>
>
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