From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 23 11:09:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04195 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:09:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.exo.net.au (sky-valley.exo.net.au [203.14.230.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04187 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bullseye.apana.org.au!andymac@mail.exo.net.au) Received: by mail.exo.net.au id m1048Q8-0004onC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:08:36 +1100 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA24575; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:32:52 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:32:20 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: "Daniel M. Eischen" cc: rpj@fep.hirshfields.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD *ever* fix their 2940U drivers ??????????????? In-Reply-To: <199901230423.WAA18123@iworks.interworks.org> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > > I believe I grabbed a copy of 2.2.8-(stable?) and 3.0-(stable?) as > > of last summer sometime. It has been awhile. But yes I did try it > > _at_ _that_ _time_. > > Well, as we've been trying to tell you, the problem most likely > isn't caused by the aic7xxx driver, but by something else. One issue that I've not seen raised in this thread so far is that of the firmware revision level. I remember previous discussions in which particular revs of 2940 firmware are OK, but others are unstable. If you have some cards that work, and some that don't, comparing the firmware might be worth a shot. As a counterpoint though, I've a system at work with Adaptec EISA controllers built in (FreeBSD probes them as 2855s). Debian 2.0r[12] boot floppies crash with a register dump when trying to probe them, but both FreeBSD 2.2.7 and Redhat 5.1 work fine. Go figure.... -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message