Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:25:08 +1200 From: Phil Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 7805H drivers Message-ID: <F020693D-E081-4EBE-9E10-6CA383912908@nevada.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <1429482043.1182.96.camel@freebsd.org> References: <70F1FB0F-2F4A-4FED-8DA3-E86994BA2203@nevada.net.nz> <1429482043.1182.96.camel@freebsd.org>
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Hi Ian, Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that but had no luck Phil > On 20/04/2015, at 10:20 am, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 09:53 +1200, Phil Murray wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a few Adaptec 7805H HBA cards which FreeBSD doesn’t support natively. However Adaptec have provided binary drivers for FreeBSD 9.2 (9.3 and 10.x support sadly absent). >> >> The problem I have is with the GENERIC kernel the compiled in ahd driver tries to attach to the controller and fails. This prevents the pmspcv (Adaptec binary) driver from working. >> >> I’d like to keep using GENERIC for freebsd-update etc., so is there a way I can stop the ahd driver from trying to attach without rebuilding the kernel? Perhaps change their priority or precedence somehow? >> >> Is porting the open source Linux driver to FreeBSD a possibility? >> >> Cheers >> >> Phil > > Try setting hw.ahd.0.disabled=1 in /boot/loader.conf. > > -- Ian > >
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