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Message-Id: <202104182221.21533.linux@zary.sk>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 22:21:21 +0200
From: Ondrej Zary <linux@...y.sk>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid@...ehiking.org>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Bring the BusLogic host bus adapter driver up to Y2021
On Friday 16 April 2021 23:25:18 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Khalid Aziz wrote:
>
> > > Sadly I didn't get to these resources while they were still there, and
> > > neither did archive.org, and now they not appear available from anywhere
> > > online. I'm sure Leonard had this all, but, alas, he is long gone too.
> >
> > These documents were all gone by the time I started working on this
> > driver in 2013.
>
> According to my e-mail archives I got my BT-958 directly from Mylex brand
> new as KT-958 back in early 1998 (the rest of the system is a bit older).
> It wasn't up until 2003 when I was caught by the issue with the LOG SENSE
> command that I got interested in the programming details of the adapter.
>
> At that time Mylex was in flux already, having been bought by LSI shortly
> before. Support advised me what was there at Leonard's www.dandelion.com
> site was all that was available (I have a personal copy of the site) and
> they would suggest to switch to their current products. So it was too
> late already ten years before you got at the driver.
>
> I'll yet double-check the contents of the KT-958 kit which I have kept,
> but if there was any technical documentation supplied there on a CD (which
> I doubt), I would have surely discovered it earlier. It's away along with
> the server, remotely managed, ~160km/100mi from here, so it'll be some
> time before I get at it though.
>
> Still, maybe one of the SCSI old-timers has that stuff stashed somewhere.
> I have plenty of technical documentation going back to early to mid 1990s
> (some in the hard copy form), not necessarily readily available nowadays.
> Sadly lots of such stuff goes offline or is completely lost to the mist of
> time.
>
> Maciej
>
Found the 3000763 document here:
https://doc.lagout.org/science/0_Computer Science/0_Computer History/old-hardware/buslogic/3000763_PCI_EISA_Wide_SCSI_Tech_Ref_Dec94.pdf
There's also 3002593 there:
https://doc.lagout.org/science/0_Computer Science/0_Computer History/old-hardware/buslogic/
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Ondrej Zary
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