Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:07:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: Peter Johnson <locke@mcs.net>, gibbs@pluto.plutotech.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Adaptec 2940U2W / Ultra2 SCSI? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980604085641.2469A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199806032312.RAA24912@panzer.plutotech.com>
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(cc:'ed to -hackers, perhaps they are also interested..) On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Peter Johnson wrote... > > At 08:29 AM 6/3/98 -0600, you wrote: > > >Peter Johnson wrote... > > >> Is the Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI adapter supported by FreeBSD-current? I'm > > > I'm not sure whether any one has tested that specific card/drive > > >configuration, but the card (and any other 7890-based board) only works > > >under CAM. See: > > > > > >ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/cam/README > > >or > > >ftp://ftp.kdm.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam/README > > > > > > Since CAM is not currently built into FreeBSD, what is the recommended way > > of installing it on a new system.. it's the classic "chicken or egg" > > problem--I can't install FreeBSD w/o CAM, and I can't build CAM w/o > Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> made a CAM boot floppy at one point, > I'm not sure whether he has a recent boot floppy. I've CCed this to > him, maybe he'll fill us in on that. Yes, it's available for download from: http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/ This version was built from (I think) March snapshot - unfortunately I did it two days before the new snapshot came out... It contains detailed instructions on how to get the system going with new kernel. > Justin and I haven't messed around with making boot floppies since > Andrzej has already done it. Jordan talked about making a CAM release one > time, but I don't think that ever happened. And I doubt it will ever happen without our specific help... There are still some pieces in the whole picture which make it difficult, such as bootblocks not recognizing "da", dubious assumptions in libdisk etc... I tried to do this some time ago, so this may have changed. Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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