From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 23 07:25:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA13432 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 07:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from thunderdome.plutotech.com (root@thunderdome.plutotech.com [206.168.67.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA13407 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 07:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by thunderdome.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA02257; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:24:53 -0700 (MST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id IAA29738; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:24:46 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199712231524.IAA29738@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-7895 (on-board double-channel SCSI) In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Dec 23, 97 02:44:09 pm" To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:24:46 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Kenneth Merry X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrzej Bialecki wrote... > Do we support such a controller? I'm trying to boot today's kernel on such > a motherboard, and it doesn't detect the SCSI at all... :-(( The 7895 is only supported in the new CAM SCSI code. Check out: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam or ftp://ftp.kdm.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam Read the README file in there, and if you want to try it, apply the diffs to a -current source tree. (both the first set, and the incremental diffs) If the diffs don't work well, let me know, and I can get you a tarball of the current CAM source tree. Unfortunately we don't have a boot floppy right now, so to get that machine up and running you'll have to put the hard drive in another machine temporarily and copy all the necessary bits over. > First, I was bitten by bounce buffers (machine in question has 512 MB > RAM), so I had to build custom installation floppy. It's not for the faint > of heart, though... but finally I succeeded. If I'll make it today (I'll > be leaving till New Year), then I'll send dmesg, mptable, pnpinfo and > whatnot I can gather during these 2 hours... Well, if you want to make a CAM boot floppy as well, I'll be glad to put it up for ftp.. If you can, though, I think it might be easier/quicker to just take the hard drive from the machine in question and put it in the machine you used to make the release and then copy the stuff over.. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com