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diff --git a/sys/gnu/misc/aic7770/README b/sys/gnu/misc/aic7770/README deleted file mode 100644 index 1e4e5a011a69..000000000000 --- a/sys/gnu/misc/aic7770/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,94 +0,0 @@ -@(#)README 1.16 94/11/09 jda - -AHA274x/284x DRIVER - -*** THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BETA SOFTWARE *** - -BACKGROUND & LIMITATIONS - -For various reasons, we ended up with one of these cards under the -impression that support was soon forthcoming. In mid-May, I asked -Scott Ferris (the official person who's supposed to be writing this -driver) what documentation he used, _finally_ got it from Adaptec, -and started writing this driver. It is now at what I would consider -a stable state - it runs our news server and is battered by SCSI -requests 24 hours a day without dying. There are a few devices it -reportedly doesn't like working with - those are being sorted out. Due -to some unexpected equipment loans, I am able to support this at least -for the time being. - -YOU MUST HAVE THE BIOS ENABLED OR THIS WILL NOT WORK. The BIOS extracts -some configuration information that I cannot get to portably yet, as -well as provides some self-tests which this driver does not attempt to -duplicate. - -Scott's driver development is stalled for now, and after discussions -with him, this is now officially out of "pre-alpha" status and into -beta until the remaining device problems can be resolved. The latest -patches can be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in -/pub/systems/linux/aha274x. - -It supports both EISA 274x and VL-bus 284x, either single or twin-bus cards -(but not the second SCSI bus of twin cards - see aha274x.c), and supports -disconnection, synchronous SCSI, and scatter-gather. Unlike previous -versions, abort() and reset() are now implemented, and both hosts.c and -aha274x.c should give a clean compile. Code is now present to detect parity -errors, but has not been tested. - -I wrote this using a 1.0.9 kernel. Unfortunately, I'm getting tired of -#ifdef'ing everything to handle two or three different evolutionary steps -in the SCSI kernel code, so I've upgraded my system to 1.1.49, and will -only leave in code to support versions from about 1.1.45 onward. - -Thanks to patches supplied by Mark Olson <molson@tricord.com>, this driver -will now work with the 284x series (the VL-bus version of this card). The -294x (PCI-bus) support is based on patches sent to me by Mark Olson and -Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>. - -Under protest, this driver is subject to the GPL - see the file -COPYING for details. - -Thanks to the following people for bug fixes/code improvements (also -thanks to the people who have sent me feedback): - - "David F. Carlson" <dave@ee.rochester.edu> - Jimen Ching <jiching@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu> - mday@artisoft.com (Matt Day) - "Dean W. Gehnert" <deang@ims.com> - Darcy Grant <darcy@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> - Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> - isely@fncrd8.fnal.gov (Mike Isely) - Mike Jerger <jerger@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> - tm@netcom.com (Toshiyasu Morita) - neal@interact.org (Neal Norwitz) - Mark Olson <molson@tricord.com> - map@europa.ecn.uoknor.edu (Michael A. Parker) - Thomas Scheunemann <thomas@dagobert.uni-duisburg.de> - -Special thanks to Drew Eckhardt <drew@kinglear.cs.Colorado.EDU> for -fielding my questions about synchronous negotiation. Steffen Moeller -<smoe0024@rz.uni-hildesheim.de> sent me installation instructions which -were previously included in this README. - -David Pirie <pirie@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> was nice enough to loan me his -2842 card for a week so I could track down one bug, as well as his -CD-ROM drive later, and also thanks to Doug Fortune at Riley's Data Share -in Calgary, who arranged a long-term loan of a 2842 board for further work. - -Many thanks to the fearless prerelease testers! Dean Gehnert has been -building Slackware boot disks for the driver, which are available from -ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in /pub/systems/linux/aha274x/slackware_boot. - -Carl Riches <cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu> has set up a mailing list -for aic7xxx driver development. To subscribe, send a message to -aic7770-list@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu with a message body of: - - subscribe AIC7770-LIST <your name here, without the angle brackets> - -Please direct questions and discussions to that list instead of me. When -sending bug reports, please include a description of your hardware, the -release numbers displayed by the driver at boot time, and as accurate a -facsimilie of any error message you're mailing about. - -John Aycock -aycock@cpsc.ucalgary.ca |