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'? -- 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
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