[rescue] Interest in Sun PCI FDDI Cards?

[James Sharp]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Scott Newell wrote:

> >Any idea what chipset they are?  Any possibility of there being NetBSD
> >(or even Linux) drivers for them?

For the Sun FDDI cards?  Nope, not likely.  The designers of these cards
got cheap and decided to implement half of the cards functionality in the
OS kernel driver.  So unless some realllllly bored person wants to write
an implementation of the FDDI SMT by hand, its not likely.

>
> Dumb questions follow...
>
> Is there any way these would work with those cheap fiber channel drives
> floating around?  It they're PCI, could you stick 'em in a PeeCee, assuming
> Linux or BSD has driver support?

They're FDDI network cards.  They won't talk to drives.