Tracking down devices in the Hardware Notes

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2004.08.26 08:09:27 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:43, you wrote:
> > On 2004.08.24 14:41:17 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:11, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > > While working on the Harware Notes I have found two device
> > > > entries where I can't really determine which driver is supposed
> > > > to support them.
> > > >
> > > > Both were in version 1.1 of common/dev.sgml and not in the old
> > > > HARDWARE.TXT.  I also tried grepping in the source tree, but
> > > > that hasn't helped in finding in the guilty drivers...  The
> > > > devices are:
> > > >
> > > > Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers
> > > > Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers
> > >
> > > I just popped in disc1 from 4.1-RELEASE/i386 (the oldest CD-ROM
> > > set in front of me right now [1]) and both of these devices are
> > > mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT as being "not supported by the new CAM
> > > subsystem".  This was a time when the release notes listed
> > > supported hardware, partially (but not completely) duplicating
> > > HARDWARE.TXT.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what the state of these devices are now, or what
> > > drivers they were mapped to.  But that gives you a pretty good
> > > idea how old they are.  If no one speaks up after a suitable
> > > amount of time, I'd say just nuke 'em.  :-)
> >
> > OK, thanks I think I will just poke -current and see if anybody
> > knows these devices, and nuke them if not.
> >
> > > [1]  It still had the shrink wrap on it until ten minutes ago.  I
> > > hope this wasn't like cutting the tag off a Beanie Baby.
> >
> > Hehe :-).
> 
> I'm not sure if I'm following this thread correctly. :-/
> 
> The Future Domain 850/9** SCSI controllers haven't been supported 
> since the 2.x days.  (Not really a big loss, they are 8 bit ISA 
> cards)

Ah, OK I suspected something like that.. Would you happen to remember
which driver supported those controllers for reference?

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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