On 4/18/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the excellent information. i have the fortune of having a > dac960 controller and an adaptec 7898n in the same machine. lucky me.
> a quick look at the dac960 driver for linux doesn't immediately reveal > any firmware. do you think that would be an easier driver to build than > the adaptec? IIRC dac960 has completely OS-independent firmware and communicates using some kind of protocol? with host os - it is only a storage controller with SCSI pass-thru for SCSI Tape. It's not what you'd call a SCSI HBA :) I wouldn't be surprised if dac960 isn't somehow similar to DPT EATA standard, where you didn't give a damn about integrated firmware (DPT Smart* IV controllers used m68k cpu's connected with specialised SCSI co-processor and PCI bus adapter - It's firmware was completely independent (most powerful models had complete 68060 :D) > i don't know a think about scsi bus protocol and i don't have a bus analyzer. > is such a beast affordable? (i am running old va linux boxen after all.) I don't think it's necessary to have a bus analyzer.... just read SCSI documentation and available source code from *BSD and Linux... > - erik -- Paul Lasek
