Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Future Domain SCSI controller for A
Message-ID: <1988Oct13.211423.23047@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 14 Oct 88 01:14:20 GMT
References: <522@m3.mfci.UUCP> <6800050@cpe>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to neese@cpe.UUCP:
>>Future Domain SCSI controller [...]
>The FD board is a nice board, but it is a dumb board and requires the CPU
>to do everything (i.e. high overhead).

Definitely.

>>    Does this imply a special version of Xenix ?
>I think, in this case, it is a generic SCO product [...]

Nope.  You need a *running* Xenix system to create a FD kernel.

>Tandy sells a version of SCO (2.2.4) which has support for the AHA-1540 
>(Tandy 25-4161) built in.

Also, unless I miss my guess, SCO 2.3 supports the AHA-1540.
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