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from Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>:

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:33:23AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:

 > Maybe there are not many NCR 5380 SCSI cards still in use?  Might that be why
 > FreeBSD and OpenBSD don't support this chip and Linux support is unstable?

>Well, NetBSD certainly supports it... it's the only SCSI available on many
>systems that NetBSD runs on!

You mean NCR 5380 SCSI chip is still fairly widely in use?  I think FreeBSD
supported this chip in their older SCSI subsystem but not after they changes to
a newer system.  Are those NetBSD systems installed from CD that runs on
NCR 5380 SCSI?

>Uh, I haven't heard of that -- I have some REALLY old CD-ROM drives that
>can read modern CDs just fine.

You mean the really old CD-ROM drives will read modern CDRs?  Is there a
difference between various types of CD as far as an old CD-ROM drive is
concerned?  I'm wondering if that old Texel 2x CD-ROM drive will read the
NetBSD CDs.