Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:54:51 -0600 (CST) From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) To: abenner@condor.physics.montana.edu (Aaron Benner) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC7880P Message-ID: <199801080654.AAA13982@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980107153011.4683B-100000@condor.physics.montana.edu> from "Aaron Benner" at Jan 7, 98 03:36:29 pm
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I have heard that the new chips broke the driver in Linux because they (chips) are not fully backwards compatible (?). i So, I just wonder whether that might be a problem for FreeBSD ? > > I've got a problem, and I need to know if I sliced hairs too thin. > > We recently aquired a pair of seagate barracuda 9 gig Ultra Wide scsi > drives, and an adaptec 2940UW (AIC7880P controller chip). > > I need to know if, as the evidence seems to support, there is enough > difference between the AIC7880 and the AIC7880P for the Ultra Wide > controller to be incompatible with FreeBSD. > > The current symptom is a hang at the kernel probe, the kernel recognizes > the card as a 2940 with a wide channel, reports the right card status, and > then the "waiting for SCSI devices to settle" just sits there like a lump. > > Any suggestions/help/comments would be most appreciated. > >
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