Strange Medieval Devices
Summary
Strange Medieval Devices is a historical deep-dive into SMD storage and SPARC Sun hardware, focusing on OpenBSD's Sun4-era drivers and storage controllers. It covers SMD vs SCSI, Xylogics and Rimfire controllers, boot block quirks, and the maintenance work required to keep aging hardware usable. The piece also documents ongoing porting efforts and hardware experiments within a personal OpenBSD project.