From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 05:31:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA17958 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 05:31:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA17940 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 05:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA01268 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for questions@freebsd.org); Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:30:34 +0100 Message-Id: <199602271330.AA01268@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:30:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Peter Sieckmann" "Drivers for onboard controller" (Feb 27, 12:24) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: "Peter Sieckmann" Subject: Re: Drivers for onboard controller Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 27, 12:24, "Peter Sieckmann" wrote: } Subject: Drivers for onboard controller } Hi } } I am experiencing difficulties installing FreeBSD 2.1 on to a Compaq } Prosignia 300 with the on-board SCSI controller. If I use the Adaptec } 1542 with a third party Hard Drive - no problems. If I use the Adaptec } 2940 (PCI) DOS sees it, FreeBSD does not. Ideally I would like to use the } onboard SCSI with FreeBSD. If there is a driver for it, please let me } know where I could get it. Well, I just forgot to answer the question about the onboard SCSI controller: This is an AMD Combo SCSI + Ethernet chip, AFAIK. The Ethernet part is supported by the Lance driver, the SCSI part seems to be a modified NCR 53c90 (?) and while there are drivers for dumb SCSI cards with these chips, nobody bothered to cover this AMD controller. The performance is nowhere near what you get from a cheap NCR PCI SCSI card, and those who could write the driver seem to prefer getting themselves a better SCSI controller instead ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se