From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 11 21:35:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27657 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mom.hooked.net (root@mom.hooked.net [206.80.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27642 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@tibet-32.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.9.160]) by mom.hooked.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA17096; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:35:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: Alex To: Alfred Perlstein cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI support? urgent! plus driver info? In-Reply-To: <33EF96F6.167EB0E7@cs.sunyit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I have a chance to buy a soundcard for my freebsd box for really really > really cheap, it has an onboard SCSI controller the add says it's a: > Adaptec AIC6360 chipset > > is this curerently supported? > > i know the combination of it being ISA and on a soundcard is going to > make it a cheasy SCSI option but will it work? are there any bugs for > that controller as of now? The 152x series (this is what Adaptec calles its AIC-6360 based carsd) is supported, but from what I've heard the driver is very flakey, and the card itself is very slow (even for an ISA card). Your best bet would probably be a Buslogic adapter or an Adaptec 1542C[F,P]. > btw, how do you guys get programming information for the various drivers > you guys write? i called IOMEGA about coding a driver for thier 2gig > Ditto drive and a bunch of drones put me on hold forever then told me > they don't release specs on thier hardware... i find this hard to belive > as the ZIP drive is supported by various Unices... AFAIK, they have a very low end Adaptec AIC (most probably 6360) based card that they bundle with their SCSI drives. The information for this is most probably available from Adaptec themselves. - alex