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From:   Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk>
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Bring the BusLogic host bus adapter driver up to Y2021
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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