Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 11:53:29 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Simon Voigt <simon@pactel.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 7880 Onboard SCSI Controller Message-ID: <19980604115329.C27834@ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <3576F45B.979@pactel.com.au>; from Simon Voigt on Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 12:24:11PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601215247.18079G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <3576F45B.979@pactel.com.au>
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On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 12:24:11PM -0700, Simon Voigt wrote: > Doug White wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Simon Voigt wrote: > > > > > I'm in the process of shopping for an intel machine to run > > > FreeBSD on. Does FreeBSD fully support the > > > Adaptec 7880 Onboard SCSI Controller? I can't find a > > > mention of it on http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook9.html#9 > > > I can only find a reference to a 7850. > > > > Yes -- the AIC7880 is the guts of a 2940UW. > > ok, whats the deal with the Adaptec 7890 Onboard SCSI Controller? > I missed the original post. I saw that some others are having > trouble. The version of freebsd that Ive dunped on a spare hard > disk for installation on the new server when it arrives is > 2.2.6 . > > The machine is going to be (most likely) a pentium II 400 > on an Intel 100MHz 440BX AGPset AususTek P2B-s motherboard. > > Am I going to have trouble, or should I specify a slighty older > motherboard and onboard controller? > AIC7890 is not supported by the current SCSI code neither in -current, nor in -stable. The new SCSI technology called CAM (Common Access Method) includes support for aic7890. The CAM code is now in beta-testing, but it's more reliable than the standard SCSI code. The CAM snapshots for both -stable and -current are downloadable from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam/ Boot floppy with new CAM SCSI code is also available and downloadable from http://www.FreeBSD.org/~abial/cam-boot/ Regards, -- Ruslan Ermilov System Administrator ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380-652-247647 Simferopol, Crimea 2426679 ICQ Network, UIN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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