From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 2 22:05:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28391 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stratos.net (pm3-3-8.stratos.net [207.86.132.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28377 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) Received: (from drifter@localhost) by stratos.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA23829 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 01:11:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from drifter) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 01:11:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Message-Id: <199810030511.BAA23829@stratos.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: `aic' preparedness... Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For the past year and a half, I have been a happy customer of FreeBSD. Over that time, I have made some significant (worthwhile) investments into FreeBSD, including the addition of an Adaptech 1520B. (I had returned an unopened SIIG -- fortunately -- after finding out it wasn't supported, and went for an Adaptech, since it seemed so well supported. But that's not important here...) Now that there was this big transition to CAM, I found out that they had successfully incorporated every SCSI driver into the system except the one I have -- `aic'. Since my FreeBSD partition is on a SCSI disk, and I also make use of a SCSI tape drive and ZIP disk, at this point I am going to need to know if there are any serious plans to reinstate the `aic' driver into the current kernel. Already, I am running an "out-of-focus" kernel with a current (as of a couple weeks ago -- I forget the date of the last makeworld) system, meaning I can't load any `lkm's (including the screen saver) due to problems with an undefined symbol `_biovidsw'. Is anyone working on this and making any real progress? I heard that someone was looking into it, but making no promises. If I were capable of doing more than shell scripts and `hello world'-type programs I would have been happy to help, but alas I can't. Also, can anyone point me to a good introduction or summary as to what CAM is (I know it stands for "Common Access Method"), what its "advantages" are to the old way, and why it's worth putting us `aic'ers in limbo over this? Thanks. -Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message