Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:12:42 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> Cc: 'Kris Kennaway' <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: LOR on current Message-ID: <20040324170402.T55727@pooker.samsco.home> In-Reply-To: <40621A99.2020203@alumni.rice.edu> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D86FA@mail.sandvine.com> <406205EE.8050506@freebsd.org> <40620FEB.7080109@alumni.rice.edu> <20040324160112.A55727@pooker.samsco.home> <40621A99.2020203@alumni.rice.edu>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jon Noack wrote: > > You seem to be in the know, perhaps you can answer this question > (without violating an NDA): > Are the older cards capable of running the new firmware but Adaptec has > just not updated them (nearing EOL, etc.), or is there more to it than > just having an i960? Not all i960 chips are created equal, or even close to equal. There are also things on the card to consider like the PIC that controls the battery and thermal monitoring, not to mention the SCSI chips themselves that require different drivers in the firmware. > > >>If you're not sure but optimistic, I'd be happy to give it a shot and > >>report back. I have free disk space on one of my machines at home > >>(primarily Windows but I've run FreeBSD on it before). I'd prefer if it > >>wouldn't nuke other partitions, but it's mostly games so it wouldn't be > >>a huge loss if it did. > > > > Feel free to experiment, but don't be surprised if it eats your disks, > > dogs, children, etc. > > Are they fundamentally different, or would you think this possible with > a decent amount of work? If you don't have any idea, fair enough -- I'm > just trying to figure out how much effort this will take and if it's > worthwhile for me to try. Very fundamentally different. ASR and AAC metadata vary in about every way possible. That's why I'm not 100% sure how safe the migration is, or whether migration actually happens vs. the AAC card just running in ASR compatibility node > > P.S. My other email address (for the next week) is scott_long@adaptec.com > > Nice... I'll get back to you on that one at the end of next week... Scott
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