From owner-freebsd-current  Sun Jul 30 05:52:44 1995
Return-Path: current-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id FAA06433
          for current-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 05:52:44 -0700
Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA06398
          ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 05:52:19 -0700
Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP
	(5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA11481; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 14:52:15 +0200
Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP
	id OAA01942; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 14:52:14 +0200
Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA23968; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:34:35 +0200
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Message-Id: <199507300934.LAA23968@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: Update on my aic driver problems
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:34:34 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, babb@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <9507290249.AA01665@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 28, 95 08:49:53 pm
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Length: 906       
Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

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. ;-)