From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Jan 21 13:52:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34F137B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E93EA43F43 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 66535 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Jan 2003 21:52:29 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:52:29 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 19160 SCSI controller configuration error: 02 In-Reply-To: <05c601c2c193$183d2990$6805a8c0@gina> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Leif Neland wrote: > To be honest, the adapter was supposed to be used in a Linux mail server. > But, to quote adaptec: http://shor.ter.dk/827735964 > > "The Adaptec SCSI Card 19160 was designed for use under Microsoft desktop > operating systems only. > > There are no Linux drivers available for the Adaptec SCSI Card 19160. " > > So the adapter fails on two points: It is not to be used with Microsoft, but > linux, and the server is not on a desktop, but in a rack :-) > > So it must be returned. It is supported on both Linux and FreeBSD (man ahc). The answer base is out of date or perhaps they're making a distinction between drivers they distribute from their website (that perhaps have had some verification tests run) and drivers included in the free OS distribution that are maintained by Adaptec engineers. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message