Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:54:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newer Adaptec 2940 on older driver... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811161653020.17775-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811161521.KAA08897@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Brian McGovern wrote: > I just bought a couple of the Adaptec 2940U2W controllers. After running > several versions of FreeBSD, I found that they weren't recognized with > 2.2.6, 2.2.7, but were with 3.0. > > After some poking the drivers look pretty much the same. Um, no. The U2W probably requires a different sequencer program. You could certainly try backporting the CAMified 3.0 driver back to the ld SCSi framework. > In short, I don't want to just "try it", as it involves building a custom > release to get the boot floppy support by default.... So, if its a no-go, > I'd just like to install 3.0 on my new server, rather than playing with > 2.2.X for the next couple of days, just to have it fail. People have tried amending the aic7xxx driver with the U2W's PCI ID and it does not work. Thus the new driver. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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