Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:29:57 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: Kenneth Merry <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-7895 (on-board double-channel SCSI) Message-ID: <19971223102957.25742@mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <199712231524.IAA29738@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth Merry on Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 08:24:46AM -0700 References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971223143804.15439C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> <199712231524.IAA29738@panzer.plutotech.com>
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On Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 08:24:46AM -0700, Kenneth Merry wrote: > Andrzej Bialecki wrote... > > Do we support such a controller? I'm trying to boot today's kernel on such > > a motherboard, and it doesn't detect the SCSI at all... :-(( > > The 7895 is only supported in the new CAM SCSI code. Check out: > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam > or > ftp://ftp.kdm.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam > > Read the README file in there, and if you want to try it, apply the > diffs to a -current source tree. (both the first set, and the incremental > diffs) If the diffs don't work well, let me know, and I can get you a > tarball of the current CAM source tree. > > Unfortunately we don't have a boot floppy right now, so to get that > machine up and running you'll have to put the hard drive in another machine > temporarily and copy all the necessary bits over. > > > First, I was bitten by bounce buffers (machine in question has 512 MB > > RAM), so I had to build custom installation floppy. It's not for the faint > > of heart, though... but finally I succeeded. If I'll make it today (I'll > > be leaving till New Year), then I'll send dmesg, mptable, pnpinfo and > > whatnot I can gather during these 2 hours... > > Well, if you want to make a CAM boot floppy as well, I'll be glad > to put it up for ftp.. If you can, though, I think it might be > easier/quicker to just take the hard drive from the machine in question and > put it in the machine you used to make the release and then copy the > stuff over.. > > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@plutotech.com Does anyone know what the plan(s) are to replace the existing SCSI code with the CAM code? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | NEW! K56Flex support on ALL modems Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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