From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 19:21:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA19666 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 19:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iworks.InterWorks.org (deischen@iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA19658 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 19:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iworks.InterWorks.org (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA08455; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:19:23 -0500 Message-Id: <9607260219.AA08455@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:19:23 -0500 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" To: dunn@harborcom.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-3985W RAID SCSI controller? Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is it supported in 2.1.5-RELEASE? I checked HARDWARE.TXT, nowhere to > be found. Just want to make sure it is not an option. :) > > Bradley Dunn > Harbor Communications > One World, One Network... Nope, not yet. It would be easy to get the 3985W supported for one of the 3 7870 controllers (channels), but each controller shares the same array of SCBs. This differs from the 3940 where there are 2 7870s, but they each have their own array of SCBs. So the 3940 is two totally independent controllers, where the 3985 is three controllers but care must be taken to allocate SCBs from a shared SCB array between each controller. The driver author has this on one of his TODO lists. If you're looking for RAID support, that's another question. AFAIK, Adaptec hasn't publicly release/published the documents for the onboard RAID controller (7810) on the 3985. Until someone prys the documents out of Adaptec for this controller, RAID will have to wait. Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org