Fix for 4.3BSD-Quasijarus bootstrap on CMD SCSI controllers

Josh Dersch derschjo at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 21:32:26 CST 2017


On 1/3/17 12:50 PM, David Brownlee wrote:

> On 3 January 2017 at 20:11, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
>> On 3 January 2017 at 15:50, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>      > From: Josh Dersch
>>>
>>>      > Thought I'd share this fix with you all just in case someone in the
>>>      > future might make use of it.
>>>
>>> To help disseminate it, I uploaded the fix to the Computer History wiki:
>>>
>>>    http://gunkies.org/wiki/CDU-710/M_disk_controller
>>>
>>>
>>>      > From: Lars Brinkhoff
>>>
>>>      > There's no central repository for fixes like these?
>>>
>>> Well, the CH wiki would be a good place, but creating new accounts on it is
>>> proving to be difficult.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get ahold of one of the two bureacrats, to make me an admin
>>> (I've been one on Wikipedia since the Devonian), so I can create accounts for
>>> people, but so far no luck.
>>>
>>>          Noel
>> Would it make sense for someone to import it to github?
>>
>> If nothing else it should be be easy enough to start with 0, then
>> update to 0a 0b and then 0c. so we have what history is available.
>>
>> (checks github)
>>
>> Aha - I see that johnwfinigan has already put up a 0c, though it
>> doesn't seem to have the 0, 0a & 0b history
>> https://github.com/johnwfinigan/4.3BSD-quasijarus0c/commits/master
>>
>> Actually I might just do the 0..0c history into a github entry myself,
>> then anyone else can just {v,}fork and take it from there as desired :-p
> No sooner said than done :)
>
> In case it proves of interest to anyone. Happy for it to be forked
> (obviously!) or to have patches or pull requests punted back to me
>
> https://github.com/abs0/4.3BSD-Quasijarus
>
> David
>

Very cool, thanks for setting that up!  I have one other fix for the 
UDA50 driver (that allows Emulex SCSI controllers to work properly) that 
I'll combine with my CMD fix and I'll send you a patch when I have it 
ready...

- Josh



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