From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 03:28:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA04393 for current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 03:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA04275 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 03:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA11134; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:27:18 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199610071027.MAA11134@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA2940 Ultra In-Reply-To: <199610070911.LAA18921@grumble.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Oct 7, 96 11:11:06 am" To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:27:18 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL24 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi > > A colleague at work has just got an AHA2940UA. At boot time > the message is (abbreviated) > > PCI0:9 Adaptec device=6178 int a irq 10 [No driver assigned] > > Have you any experience with this card? If I just patch the source > to treat it as a 2940 or 2940U do I have a reasonable chance of > success? > I made a few changes a while ago to make it work, but I think I saw Justin committing support for it during the weekend. One problem I had with the card (and my patches) was that when I did a reboot the Adaptec BIOS did not see the disks anymore. It might have been my patches, but some people suggested that it might be a firmware problem. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za