Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 21:54:50 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "David E. Tweten" <tweten@frihet.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Developer asks for list of desired supported cards Message-ID: <199803050454.VAA16109@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199803050415.UAA03362@ns.frihet.com> References: <199803050415.UAA03362@ns.frihet.com>
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> >>>How about other cards? What kinds of things aren't supported in FreeBSD > >>>currently and/or things you'd like to see supported. (We're talking > >>>about FreeBSD here, not PAO.) > >> > >>The Adaptec SlimSCSI "sort of" works. It would be good if that was > >>fixed. > > >The "sort of" part has do more with the hardware than the driver in > >FreeBSD. It works as well as the hardware allows. :) :) :) > > >(I have no problems on my box with it, but it's not doing much more > >than read CD's). I think it's as 'good as it's gonna get' as far as > >support goes. > > Does this mean that the FreeBSD driver's inability to "force" an IRQ, > contrary to what the card requests was fixed while I wasn't looking? Card requests? I don't follow. > That > was the problem that made it fail the last time I took my Adaptec SlimSCSI > out of its box and tried it. The interrupts that are available on my laptop > form a disjoint set with those the card says it needs. The interrupts that card claims it supports are totally bogus. It can use *any* free IRQ port. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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