patch-1.3.4 linux/drivers/scsi/README.aha274x

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• Date: Thu Jan 1 02:00:00 1970
• Orig file: v1.3.3/linux/drivers/scsi/README.aha274x
• Orig date: Sun Nov 20 21:50:47 1994

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-@(#)README 1.15 94/10/29 jda
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-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) is being worked on, and initial support for it will be ready
-soon.
-
-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
-facsimile of any error message you're mailing about.
-
-John Aycock
-aycock@cpsc.ucalgary.ca