From owner-aic7xxx Mon Jan 21 9:46:51 2002 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F9437B416 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:46:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from scsiguy.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0LHkgu49567; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:46:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Message-Id: <200201211746.g0LHkgu49567@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: stefan.bergholz@de.tiscali.com Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problem on AIC-7890 systems In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:11:24 +0100." <02012118112406.97554@bofh.nacamar.de> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:46:42 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Hi Justin, > >Jonathan M. Bresler told us to inform you about our problem with installing >FreeBSD since release 4.4 on systems using AIC-7890 SCSI-controllers. >(We are a large ISP and we and our customers are still using a lot of this >systems.) > >We discovered that the generic kernel doesn't support 7890s, while our self >made kernel does fine. This is for installations not very usefull. > >Could you help to fix this problem until 4.5 final release, please? >Many thanks! I don't know why 4.5 or 4.4 for that matter would not support the aic7890. I run on an aic7890 system using the latest -stable kernel and have no difficulties. Can you elaborate on what happens during a failed instal of 4.4? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message