Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:30:06 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/4945: continued failure to use the Adaptec 1460A PCMCIA SCSI host adaptor Message-ID: <199711052230.OAA14420@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/4945; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: ji@research.att.com Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/4945: continued failure to use the Adaptec 1460A PCMCIA SCSI host adaptor Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:29:26 -0700 (MST) > > You haven't given me *any* useful information to go on. What are the > > results printed on the screen, or what the pccardd daemon said, etc..? > > I can't help you unless you give me something to work with. > > I'll try to boot with the second serial port as the console (the first > is an IRDA port) and capture the console messages. > In any case, I don't see a line in the PCCARD config file indicating > that a driver for the 1460 is being configured; You mean the PCCARD kernel config file? It has a line that says: controller aic0 at isa? port 0x340 bio irq 11 vector aicintr >I would expect > something like "controller foo0 on slot?" but all that's vaguely > related to scsi in that config file is the "controller aic0 on isa0" > (or something like that; I'm not near my FreeBSD machine right now), > and then a "device sd0". Am I missing something here? Yeah, the correct config file apparently. > What's the pccardd daemon? That's the user-land code that reads the information in the PCMCIA cards, and tells the kernel which driver to use, based on information in /etc/pccard.conf. > To give you a bit more background: I'm trying to bring up FreeBSD on > my notebook using a scsi jaz drive as the only disk; I assumed that > something along the lines of what I described in the previous > paragraph, combined with "config vmunix root on sd0" would do the > trick. Apparently, this is not the case. Umm, you *can't* do that on a laptop, since you have to have a disk to boot off *before* you can recognize PCCARDs. Nate
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