From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 11 13:18:30 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA10851 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:18:30 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA10780; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:16:03 -0800 Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA17845; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:49:08 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199501112149.NAA17845@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2940 support in FreeBSD-lite 2.0 To: MBERBAUM@UA1VM.UA.EDU (Michael L. Berbaum) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:49:08 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org, scsi@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501111818.KAA06407@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Michael L. Berbaum" at Jan 11, 95 12:10:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1448 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Greetings, > My new PC will use an Adaptec AHA-2940 bus master PCI-to-Fast SCSI > host adapter. I want to determine whether a driver for the adapter is > built in to the latest release of FreeBSD (the v1.14 FAQ of 1994/12/29 > lists several Adaptec series, but not this one, so I suspect not) or > whether it is possible to load the appropriate driver at boot time > and to make this 'automatic'. If you've been through this question, > can you advise me or point me to drivers and instructions for > configuration? Also, has anyone undertaken development of support > for the AHA-2940 for FreeBSD? Any help and advice appreciated! > --Mike I have written support for the aic7770 based cards (2742 and 2842). I'm currently working with some testers in the Linux camp to get my 294x driver off the ground. The current theory is a problem with doing inw and outw instructions to the card. I'll know more about this later today. > > Michael L. Berbaum, Res. Social Scientist Phone: (205) 348-2851 > Institute for Social Science Research FAX: (205) 348-2849 > University of Alabama, Box 870216 Bitnet: MBerbaum @ UA1VM > Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0216 Internet: MBerbaum @ UA1VM.UA.EDU > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================