From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 10:05:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26114 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26106 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:05:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA14319; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:02:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603071802.LAA14319@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Embedded SCSI controller on HP netserver LC To: tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:02:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Terry Dwyer" at Mar 7, 96 10:43:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I've been offered the chance to upgrade my hardware at work from a tired > old 486DX33 16MB ram to a new machine. This could well be a HP Netserver > LC (P100). > > I have some reservations about this machine, the main one being to do with > the embedded SCSI controller, (an aha7770 I've been told), on the EISA > bus, this is even though the machine has a PCI bus. > > Does anyone know if the embedded controller is, in fact a 7770 or has > someone made a typo, should it be a 7870 (please yes!) > > I've looked at the FAQ and the handbook (on minnie) and it says only 7870 > controllers are supported. Is this up to date info? > > Apart from the above, I'm also not very impressed by the SCSI controller > being attached to the EISA, not the PCI bus. > > If anyone could help me out with this I would be most appreciative, I > have to talk the boss around to speccing my own (ASUS 2940W) machine ASAP. If this is the machine I think it is, then it is an AIC 7770 chip on the motherboard. UnixWare had a significant problem running on these boxes because of the HIM layer being changed by HP and the download microcode needing to be slightly different. I know that at least one person was running FreeBSD on this hardware, but you will need to post a message, probably to -hackers, asking for the details about their experience. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.