On 04 Oct, Reinoud Zandijk <zandijk@cs.utwente.nl> wrote:
> Hi Tony and Chris,

> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Tony Beaumont wrote:

> > I'll try again with RiscBSD (now version 1.4 I think) when I have the
> > time, now I have just installed RO4, but I'm still not prepared to
> > sacrifice the SCSI chain.

> Dunno about the installation kernels, but there is Cumana SCSI I and II
> support in the recent 1.4/1.4.1 release of NetBSD/arm32 (aka RiscBSD). 
> Well.. it says so in the supported Acorn devices page
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm32/dev_acorn. 

> Dunno about performance though... there is some major speedup work done on
> Acorn SCSI drivers by Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>... 

> Try it out!,

> Reinoud

Thanks for the info. I'll try it out in due course. Unfortunately I did
not partition the larger IDE drive I fitted when swapping to RO4, so I
will now have to back up and do that, or install RiscBSD (or whatever it's
called) on the back end of my second IDE drive (which used to be my first
IDE drive, so 1.3 is already installed there, though inaccessible). 

When I have time, of course - like I'm pretty busy with increased work for
new and established clients just now. Down the line, however, I will
somehow make the time, as I think unix (or Linux, whatever) is an
important part of the IT future as well as its past, and a better server
option than Windows or NT, whatever Microsoft says. 

Tony