From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: WD7000? (answers) info on SCSI project.
Summary: SCSI DRIVER PROJECT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 05:52:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.015113.20172@ctr.columbia.edu> vikki@e40-008-9.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:
>Hi Everyone!
>
>	I'm all set to go out and get an Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter or an
>AHA1740 to run in 1542 mode, but I thought I'd ask the net first if anyone's
>heard of any effort to write a 386BSD driver for the Western Digital
>WD7000-FASST2 SCSI adapter.  I'm using one now with Esix SvsV R3.2D and a big
>Maxtor disk.  I've never been overly thrilled by it though because there's no
>boot driver for it - I have to boot from an IDE disk and mount the Maxtor
>afterwards...  I feel like it might a good time to break down and get the
>Adaptec card, unless.....  Someone is working on a driver for the WD7000?  :-)
>Much thanks to all of you!
>
>-John
>jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu
>
>

In answer to this question:
Yes there is work under way for a WD7000 driver.
It is part of a loosely organised project to write a coherent scsi
subsystem for 386bsd.
The first driver completed is the
adaptec 1542B (now in ALPHA testing (even boots!))

Scsi boards having drivers written for them include:
-------------------------------------------------------
Adaptec 1542B	-completed and in alpha
Adaptec 1542a	-I am investigating the differences with the
		1542B and may produce a 'variant' driver if it seems
		feasible.
Adaptec 1522	-one person has expressed interest in doing this
		-present status unknown.
WD7000		-probing, latest status unknown
ST01/ST02	-Being ported from a working driver 
Future Domain	-two people starting on this one this week
Bustek 742a	-basically completed, I can't test it yet.(native 32bit mode)
		-(I don't have and EISA 386bsd machine ready yet)(next week)
Adaptec 1740	-I have the docs and expect to do it in the next few weeks

scsi devices with modules being written:
-------------------------------------------------------
scsi disk	-in alpha. boots and runs. sometimes crashes in disklabel?
scsi tape	-in alpha.
			-runs on:
				cypher 3480 compatible drive
				exabyte 8200
				Wangdat 1300 DAT drive
			-being tested on:
				Archive Viper (minor bugs)

scsi cdrom	-not supported, will someone write one?
		-use PACE's as a guide.



support code:
-------------------------------------------------------
BIOS enabled boot blocks. able to boot on any device that has BIOS roms
		- I'm getting creamed by this one 8-)
SCSI badblocking utility: (tell the drive to map out bad blocks)
		-I don't have any bad blocks.. when I do it'll appear 8-)
ENHANCED scsi tape utility.. knows about extended tape support
		- e.g. setting densities on 9-track etc. -planned-

If any people have updates on the status of these projects could they
let me know? If anyone knows of people working on OTHER drivers could
you also let me know. 

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