Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:34:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, babb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Update on my aic driver problems Message-ID: <199507300934.LAA23968@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9507290249.AA01665@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 28, 95 08:49:53 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > The aic chip is actually an AIC 6260, and the `aic' driver isn't very > > clear about this, but it looks like it would only support AIC 6360's. :-( > > The 6260 doesn't support scatter/gather, I believe. > > > Does anybody know what's the difference, and if it would be allot of > > work to hack it? By now, all i get is ``sd0(aic0:0:0) timed out'' > > when sysinstall tries to find the drive(s), even though the driver has > > been properly probing the chip and announced the disk drive. > > I don't know how you'd hack it onto a chip that doesn't support it. > > 8-). Hmm, well. Scatter/gather is a required feature for FreeBSD, ain't it? Hmm, pity. Perhaps i could find an IDE disk for it plus a spare old IDE adaptor. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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