From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8952BC433B4 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DDB610A1 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232537AbhDRU2b (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:28:31 -0400 Received: from hosting.gsystem.sk ([212.5.213.30]:36190 "EHLO hosting.gsystem.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232075AbhDRU2a (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:28:30 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 396 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:28:29 EDT Received: from [192.168.0.2] (188-167-68-178.dynamic.chello.sk [188.167.68.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hosting.gsystem.sk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9D777A0191; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 22:21:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Ondrej Zary To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Bring the BusLogic host bus adapter driver up to Y2021 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 22:21:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Khalid Aziz , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <202104182221.21533.linux@zary.sk> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ -- Ondrej Zary