Subject: [INFO] Future Domain SCSI Driver Fails with New Boards
From: [email-masked] (Rik Faith)
Date: 13 May 1993 01:08:00 +0300
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Apparently, the current version (3.5) of the Future Domain SCSI driver (for
TMC-16x0 boards) does not work with the new 18C50 chipset.  The new boards
show the following banner at boot time:

        Future Domain 1800/18C50 SCSI ROM BIOS v3.00

The BIOS signature is: FUTURE DOMAIN TMC-18XX (C) 1993 V3.203/12/93

This is a non-standard BIOS signature, so you would have had to build a
custom kernel to even try the driver.  I have the manuals for the 18C50 on
order and expect to work on the problem over the next few weeks.

If you have one of these boards, please send me email so that I can put you
on the alpha tester list.

NOTE: This does not have anything to do with 8xx or 9xx Future Domain
cards.  Please send me mail about TMC-16x0 cards *ONLY*.

-- 
Rik Faith: [email-masked]
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  -  Benjamin Franklin