From owner-aic7xxx Fri Nov 19 9:43:47 1999 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [207.175.42.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62453156DB for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dledford@redhat.com) Received: from aic-cvs.devel.redhat.com (root@dhcpd10.meridian.redhat.com [207.175.43.138]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA04785; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:43:22 -0500 Received: from redhat.com (IDENT:dledford@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aic-cvs.devel.redhat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08734; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:43:22 -0500 Message-ID: <38358C3A.6D6A29F1@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:43:22 -0500 From: Doug Ledford Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-29 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony_Melia@Dell.com Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 7897 References: <77CA71B826C3D111A08200A0C9AB506002E572F9@bryxmedc02.bray.ie.dell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony_Melia@Dell.com wrote: > > Are there any drivers for the above mentioned card? If not, does anybody > know if and when they are planned for? This is the chipset used on the Dell > PERC2 RAID controller (see > http://support.dell.com/docs/storage/obsidian/specs.htm) and I would like to > try Linux on it. Those aren't useable. They are hidden behind the StrongARM processor, the 7815 parity engine, and one other Adaptec chip on that card. The kernel level driver has no means by which to talk directly to the 7897 chips that card uses. -- Doug Ledford Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message