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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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