From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 5 12:27:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA04555 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from iworks.InterWorks.org (deischen@iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA04533 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deischen@iworks.interworks.org) Received: (from deischen@localhost) by iworks.InterWorks.org (8.7.5/) id OAA29352; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:31:05 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199712052031.OAA29352@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:31:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, schwarz@cx25450-a.dt1.sdca.home.com Subject: Re: FW: support for AIC 7895 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I recently put together a system based upon the Tyan Thunder 2 > motherboard, which has on-board an Adaptec AIC 7895 SCSI controller. > (This is supposed to be "equivalent to a 3940-AUW", to quote the > motherboard documentation. Strangely, the Adaptec web site seems to > contain no info on the AIC 7895.) [...] > I am attempting to get this SCSI controller to play with FreeBSD, starting from 3.0-971022-SNAP. [...] > This is not enough to get the card working. This controller is not totally register compatible with the other 7880s. It doesn't have QINFIFO, QOUTFIFO, QINCNT, and QOUTCNT registers, which is what the driver uses to transfer commands to and from the sequencer. Justin Gibbs is currently working on adding support for these controllers. Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org