From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 12:45:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA26682 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:45:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA26677 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from marc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA06108; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:45:15 -0800 From: Marcelino Enriquez Message-Id: <199602212045.MAA06108@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Subject: Re: SCSI Support To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:45:13 -0800 (PST) Cc: mars@pasteur.eecs.berkeley.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org, marc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU In-Reply-To: <199602211639.IAA12441@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 21, 96 08:39:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Justin T. Gibbs would have said it: > > >Hi there my name is Marcelino and I have encountered some problems with > >installing FreeBSD on my system. > > > >Here is the Specs > > > >Motherboard - lightning series w/ built-in SCSI support using an Adaptic > >7840 chip > > I would guess you mean a 7850. Its not currently supported (as you found > out), but work is in progress to try and get aic7850 support functional > in the ahc driver. The problems with the 7850 have been very elusive > though, so I can't say when the problems will be fixed. > Thanks Justin! How can I find out when you will have a working version or prototype to test? I am willing to test anything right now. Also, would I require to get a new distribution of FreeBSD when you get something working or do I need just a new bootup floppy? Thanks For your help and info -- marc@soda.berkeley.edu