[ES40-announcements] Call for help: SCSI card needed

[Camiel V. <iam...@gm...>]

Hello everyone,

First, a piece of good news: Eduardo Marcello Serrat has found the
cause of the bugcheck in the SCSI driver. That means we're getting
closer to working SCSI disks on the emulator running OpenVMS.

Now the bad news, to complete the emulation of the SCSI card, we need
an image of the firmware ROM on a true DEC 3X-KZPCA-AA SCSI
controller.

If I could get my hands on a real 3X-KZPCA-AA card, I could probably
manage to extract the contents of the ROM to create an image.

If any of you happen to have one of these cards, could you let me
know? They are identifyable by the main chip, which is either "NCR
53C985", "LSI Logic 53C895" or "Symbios 53C895". There are also
versions of this card that won't work with OpenVMS, so please check
that first. If you have this card, it would be very useful if you
could create an image of the PCI option ROM, or if you'd be willing to
part with the card (for a while) so I can extract the image.

Thanks,

Camiel.

P.S. Apologies to those who receive this e-mail twice, but I found
this important enough to send to both the developers and the
announcements list.