Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:51:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Piet Delaney <piet@cup.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for Suggestion on Booting FreeBSD 3.0 on a Gigabyte GA-6BXDS board with Dual Pentiun II and Adaptec 7895 Ultra Wide SCSI-3 Controlers Message-ID: <369ED75E.2E81E465@softweyr.com> References: <369EBF5F.23AC@cup.hp.com>
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Piet Delaney wrote: > > Hi David, Cory, Dave, Folks: Good grief that was a long distrubtion list! > I thought it was about time to try out > FreeBSD, most likely 3.0, so I picked up a PC > board from Gigabyte, the GA-6BXDS Dual Scsi-3 > that has an onboard Adaptec 7895 controler. > About a year ago you (David) said Justin was working > on a 7895 scsi controler. I didn't see anything > in the FreeBSD handbook on support for the Adaptic > 7895 (seems to be getting rather out of date). >From the 3.0 release notes http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.0R/notes.html: % o Support for Adaptec 7890, 7891, 7895, 7896 and 7897 based controllers % (new 2940/2950/3940/3950 et al). > Now I've read from Cory that you need a CAM scsi > driver. Last I see it was still only available as > patches. Why is it taking so long to get it integrated The CAM driver is in 3.0-RELEASE as well as 3.0-CURRENT. > into the current src? So I have to get an IDE drive and > install onto that, get the CAM patches (from where?), > run patch, etc... and linux supports it a standard > controler? I can't believe this. Then don't. > Perhaps you could update me on the 7895 support Update yourself, read the release notes. > and perhaps have some suggestion on setting up this > board to run FreeBSD. For example can I boot the > 3.0 FreeBSD off of a CDROM on the scsi adapters; > I sort of doubt it. I don't know if you can, but I can. I can even boot it from ATAPI cdrom. (This worked on my old Gateway P6 with a 7880 SCSI controller, so it's not exactly new.) > Is the FreeBSD getting the information it needs from > Gigabyte and Adaptec so that these boards are well > supported? The Linux Adaptec drivers are based on the FreeBSD ones. Are you a plant working for ESR or something? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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