From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 16 22:14:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22177 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22171 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:14:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) id XAA03007; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:13:43 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199811170613.XAA03007@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Newer Adaptec 2940 on older driver... In-Reply-To: <199811161521.KAA08897@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> from Brian McGovern at "Nov 16, 98 10:21:12 am" To: bmcgover@cisco.com (Brian McGovern) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:13:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. The driver changed very significantly between 2.x and 3.0. > What I'm wondering is if I can get these cards working by popping in the PCI > device IDs for the U2Ws in to aic7870.c (in 2.2.6 or 2.2.7), and be up and > running; or whether there were more significant changes to support these > cards? Yes, very significant changes. In other words, don't try it. > 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. Install 3.0, or the 2.2-stable CAM snapshot here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/development/cam/... KEn -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message