Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 01:11:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob <drifter@stratos.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: `aic' preparedness... Message-ID: <199810030511.BAA23829@stratos.net>
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For the past year and a half, I have been a happy customer of
FreeBSD. Over that time, I have made some significant (worthwhile)
investments into FreeBSD, including the addition of an Adaptech 1520B.
(I had returned an unopened SIIG -- fortunately -- after finding out
it wasn't supported, and went for an Adaptech, since it seemed so well
supported. But that's not important here...)
Now that there was this big transition to CAM, I found out that
they had successfully incorporated every SCSI driver into the system
except the one I have -- `aic'.
Since my FreeBSD partition is on a SCSI disk, and I also make
use of a SCSI tape drive and ZIP disk, at this point I am going to need
to know if there are any serious plans to reinstate the `aic' driver
into the current kernel.
Already, I am running an "out-of-focus" kernel with a current
(as of a couple weeks ago -- I forget the date of the last makeworld)
system, meaning I can't load any `lkm's (including the screen saver) due to
problems with an undefined symbol `_biovidsw'.
Is anyone working on this and making any real progress? I heard
that someone was looking into it, but making no promises. If I were
capable of doing more than shell scripts and `hello world'-type programs
I would have been happy to help, but alas I can't.
Also, can anyone point me to a good introduction or
summary as to what CAM is (I know it stands for "Common Access Method"),
what its "advantages" are to the old way, and why it's worth putting us
`aic'ers in limbo over this? Thanks.
-Rob
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