Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 06:32:20 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Welk <mw@freibergnet.de> To: Piet Delaney <piet@cup.hp.com> Cc: mango@staff.communique.net, oblio@eyeintegrated.com, rwm@tansoft.com, nasir@asacomputers.com, info-gbt@giga-byte.com, gigabyte@tpts1.seed.net.tw, xiyuan@npc.haplink.com.cn, hank@wsm.com, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, jack@rome.cs.miami.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, edmond@shaman.cup.hp.com, gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stealth-admin@viaduk.net, fischer@nwe.ufl.edu, casanoba@ailab10.sogang.ac.kr, stevet@acs.stritch.edu, joe@monk.via.ne, tef@postgres.dtcom.dp.ua, obrien@nuxi.com, piet@piet.net, piet@hpfsvr02.cup.hp.com, ckempf@enigami.com, dg@root.com Subject: RE: Looking for Suggestion on Booting FreeBSD 3.0 on a Gigabyte Message-ID: <XFMail.990115063220.mw@freibergnet.de> In-Reply-To: <369EBF5F.23AC@cup.hp.com>
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On 15-Jan-99 Piet Delaney wrote: () 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 I didn't see anything () in the FreeBSD handbook on support for the Adaptic () 7895 (seems to be getting rather out of date).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. 3.0-RELEASE and newer uses CAM as default supporting 7895 and a bunch of other newer Adaptec chipsets. We have three machines here with an Asus P2B-S motherboard that run fine. We have recently upgraded all of them to the 3.0-CURRENT tree as we run a local CVS archive. Seems like your information is pretty old. We have decided to use -CURRENT for what is usually called a "production machine" that won´t run very critical applications these days (our own fax server, our own news server, experimental database server). So we will see if it runs "stable enough" for our purpose. For now, it looks very good and we didn't experience any serious problems yet. () Perhaps you could update me on the 7895 support () and perhaps have some suggestion on setting up this () board to run FreeBSD. For example can I boot the () 3.0 FreeBSD off of a CDROM on the scsi adapters; () I sort of doubt it. My 3.0-RELEASE CD-ROM had no problems booting on the machines mentioned above. They also had no problems with running a custom install :-) Look at http://www.freebsd.org/ (which is always a good starting point for asking most main questions about FreeBSD) at the release information for 3.0. It says: 1. What's new since 2.2.X-RELEASE --------------------------------- All changes described here are unique to the 3.0 branch unless specifically marked as [MERGED] features. 1.1. KERNEL CHANGES ------------------- o The 2.2.x SCSI subsystem has been almost entirely replaced with a new "CAM" (Common Access Method) SCSI system which offers improved performance, better error recovery and support for more SCSI controllers. (and it says more, of course, but I didn´t to quote that all) There is also a 2.2-CAM tree available, but I have no experiences with that, look at ftp.freebsd.org. Regards, Martin -- FreibergNet Systemhaus GbR Martin Welk * Sales, Support Systemhaus für Daten- und Netzwerktechnik phone +49 3731 781387 Unternehmensgruppe Liebscher & Partner fax +49 3731 781377 D-09599 Freiberg * Am St. Niclas Schacht 13 http://www.freibergnet.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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