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Date:      Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:51:34 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
Cc:        "Bruce M. Walter" <walter@fortean.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AHC/WD driver status...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901190950171.40696-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901181915.MAA00909@narnia.plutotech.com>

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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990118084038.17871B-100000@callisto.fortean.com> 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'?

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037



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