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=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 80466C433B4 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A903611CE for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S239675AbhDSPGw (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:06:52 -0400 Received: from mailout.easymail.ca ([64.68.200.34]:53830 "EHLO mailout.easymail.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238693AbhDSPGu (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:06:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailout.easymail.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75B4C2899; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:06:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at emo04-pco.easydns.vpn Received: from mailout.easymail.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (emo04-pco.easydns.vpn [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gFNAWWdJVtxJ; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gonehiking.org (c-24-9-64-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net [24.9.64.241]) by mailout.easymail.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4C499C2968; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (internal [192.168.1.4]) by mail.gonehiking.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A183EF41; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:06:09 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Bring the BusLogic host bus adapter driver up to Y2021 To: Ondrej Zary , "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <202104182221.21533.linux@zary.sk> From: Khalid Aziz Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:06:09 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <202104182221.21533.linux@zary.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/18/21 2:21 PM, Ondrej Zary wrote: > 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/ > Thanks!!! -- Khalid