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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:31:05 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.interworks.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, schwarz@cx25450-a.dt1.sdca.home.com
Subject:   Re: FW: support for AIC 7895
Message-ID:  <199712052031.OAA29352@iworks.InterWorks.org>

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> I recently put together a system based upon the Tyan Thunder 2
> motherboard, which has on-board an Adaptec AIC 7895 SCSI controller.
> (This is supposed to be "equivalent to a 3940-AUW", to quote the
> motherboard documentation.  Strangely, the Adaptec web site seems to
> contain no info on the AIC 7895.)

[...]

> I am attempting to get this SCSI controller to play with FreeBSD,
starting from 3.0-971022-SNAP.

[...]

> This is not enough to get the card working.

This controller is not totally register compatible with the other
7880s.  It doesn't have QINFIFO, QOUTFIFO, QINCNT, and QOUTCNT
registers, which is what the driver uses to transfer commands
to and from the sequencer.  Justin Gibbs is currently working on
adding support for these controllers.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org



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