From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 20:36:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13636 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:36:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13630 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:36:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id XAA04818; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:35:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:35:20 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen Message-Id: <199901150435.XAA04818@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, piet@cup.hp.com Subject: Re: Looking for Suggestion on Booting FreeBSD 3.0 [snip] from 7895 [snip] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi David, Cory, Dave, Folks: > > I thought it was about time to try out > FreeBSD, most likely 3.0, so I picked up a PC > board from Gigabyte, the GA-6BXDS Dual Scsi-3 > that has an onboard Adaptec 7895 controler. > About a year ago you (David) said Justin was working > on a 7895 scsi controler. I didn't see anything > in the FreeBSD handbook on support for the Adaptic > 7895 (seems to be getting rather out of date). > Now I've read from Cory that you need a CAM scsi > driver. Last I see it was still only available as > patches. Why is it taking so long to get it integrated > into the current src? So I have to get an IDE drive and > install onto that, get the CAM patches (from where?), > run patch, etc... and linux supports it a standard > controler? I can't believe this. Please don't send this to so many people. I've snipped 26 or so Email address off the reply. Direct this to freebsd-questions only. If you had looked at the FreeBSD 3.0 release notes from the web site, you would have seen: 2.1. Disk Controllers --------------------- WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) IDE ATA Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. Adaptec 274X/284X/2920/2940/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers. Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers. Yes, AIC789x is supported where x=5. Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message