From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 19 02:42:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA18338 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18318 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:42:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA46097; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:51:34 GMT Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:51:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: "Bruce M. Walter" , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AHC/WD driver status... In-Reply-To: <199901181915.MAA00909@narnia.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > In article you wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I just picked up a Digital Personal Workstation 500au and am looking > > forward to getting to work on making FreeBSD happy on it. Thing is that > > the previous owner pulled the QLogic and substituted an IDE boot drive and > > an AHC 2940UW for the scsi controller. Since neither are supported by the > > latest SNAP I wanted to see if either have been worked on or are close to > > ready for testing, thich I'd be more than happy to do. (I realize I won't > > be able to boot from the SCSI drive, just want it recognized). > > Getting the 2940 to work shouldn't be too hard. I'll take a crack at > it later this week. It should be just a matter of finishing off some > of the bus dma stuff in the driver and I've been meaning to do that > for some time. I don't know if the firmware can support it though which would make it useless as a boot device (it would work after boot though). What does the firmware say when you type 'show config'? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message