From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 23 01:26:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01442 for current-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:26:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA01430 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:26:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA17612; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:25:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:25:03 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Jimbo Bahooli cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advansys isa scsi driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Jimbo Bahooli wrote: > I have an advansys scsi card that is supported by reading it in the > comment of the sys/i386/isa/adv_isa.c file. Yet I find no clues on how to > enable it in the kernel. I have looked through LINT, and files.i386 both > with no help. Anyone know? well... I'm not an expert at it... but you need to add i386/isa/adv_isa.c and i386/scsi/advansys.c to files.i386... something like this: i386/isa/adv_isa.c optional xxx device-driver replace xxx with what you feel like calling the device... then add a line like: device xxx0 at isa? port 0xXXX bio irq X vector adv_isa_intr now for the real information needed: Advanced Systems Inc. SCSI Controller driver and ISA/VL front end. I have only tested the ABP5140 card and only with a single CDROM drive but it seems to work fine. This driver relies on features found only in the SCSI branch so will not work in -current until those changes are brought in. It also doesn't have any error handling code *yet*. The goal is to use this driver as the development platform for the new generic SCSI layer error recovery/handling code. PCI and EISA front ends will show up as soon as I get my hands on the cards. There are also a few issues in the driver that I need to clear up with AdvanSys before I can suggest sticking one of these cards in your server. 8-) Thanks to AdvanSys for releasing this code under a suitable copyright. Obtained from: Ported from the Linux driver writen by bobf@advansys.com (Bob Frey). this is a comment that Justin Gibbs made when he commited the driver... hope this helps... ttyl... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)