From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 27 11:41: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (unknown [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5F614E9B; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 11:41:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA11951; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:40:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199906271840.MAA11951@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: Are SIIG SCSI Cards Supported? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990627105330.0079e210@we.mediaone.net> from "gummibear@we.mediaone.net" at "Jun 27, 1999 10:53:30 am" To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:40:58 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (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 gummibear@we.mediaone.net wrote... > > Hello all! > > I'm looking at getting a low-cost entry level SCSI adapter. I came across > SIIG (www.siig.com) products while looking through newspaper ads. SIIG > seems to make various I/O adapters ranging from SCSI cards to ATA/66 cards > and more. The product that I was interested in is the: AP-40 SCSI Pro PCI - > Ultra Wide SCSI Bus Master Adapter. I've seen this card as low as $150 > which seems to be a good deal. > > According to their website their SCSI controllers use two different > chipsets, the ADVANSYS and INITIO. I believe that I've read that the > Admansys chipset is supported, but I'm not sure about the Initio. Do you > know if that chipset is supported? The Initio chips are not supported. There is a driver, written by Initio, for the old SCSI layer, but as far as I know, it hasn't been ported to CAM. So, you'll need to find out what chip is on the SIIG board in question. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message