From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 9 14:49:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@www.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364C416A4CF for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:49:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net (pimout2-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4F543D53 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:49:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from maul.immure.com (adsl-66-136-206-1.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [66.136.206.1])i89En1vd224858; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:49:01 -0400 Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i89EmwIn088965; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:48:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i89Emwvu004057; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:48:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i89Emwff004056; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:48:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:48:58 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20040909144858.GA3512@luke.immure.com> References: <20040905123829.D51907@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> <6.1.2.0.0.20040905214720.05a7d5b0@193.189.169.9> <20040908092352.T26965@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> <20040908181751.GB32204@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040908181751.GB32204@odin.ac.hmc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-immure-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-immure-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: bob@immure.com cc: freebsd-amd64@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware (twe, twa) support for AMD64 in 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bob Willcox List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:49:06 -0000 On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:17:51AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:51:09AM -0400, Jason M. Leonard wrote: > > > > But I still wanted a box running FreeBSD/AMD64, so I ordered an all-SCSI > > box with an asr(4)-based SCSI card. Because this time I checked the > > hardware release notes for AMD64 and asr(4) was listed. Cool. > > > > Except, of course, when I tried to install FreeBSD/AMD64 on my new SCSI > > machine I found that asr(4) didn't really work after all. > > asr(4) is not 64-bit ready. :( I believe aac is. FWIW, the amr driver (w/ an LSI 320-2 RAID ctlr) works fine on my AMD64 system running 5-current (from the May '04 time frame). Bob -- Bob Willcox Acquaintance, n.: bob@immure.com A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, Austin, TX but not well enough to lend to. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"