From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 22 13:51:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA01450 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA01445 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA06593; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:51:51 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id WAA07368; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:39:14 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970822223914.DW10161@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:39:14 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: paulg@interlog.com (Paul Griffith) Subject: Re: FreeBSD, 1522, SCSI CDROM, HD timeout error References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Paul Griffith on Aug 22, 1997 13:11:13 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Griffith wrote: > I am having problems installing FreeBSD on an Adaptec 1522 SCSI card. On > boot probe it sees the card with the external SCSI cdrom, and the IBM > internal HD ( model no. DSAS-3540). However on the debug screen, it shows > that both the CDROM and HD time out. Well, this is not very surprising. The aic(4) driver is basically unmaintained, and we no longer refer to it as `supported'. It went down into a `this might or might not work for you' item. Of course, we don't mind you applying for the vacant job of a maintainer for this driver. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)