Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 17:15:27 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: cmascott@world.std.com (Carl Mascott) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does 3.3-R support Adaptec AVA-2906? Message-ID: <199910142315.RAA46226@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <199910141453.KAA01285@world.std.com> from Carl Mascott at "Oct 14, 1999 10:53:35 am"
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Carl Mascott wrote... > Does FreeBSD 3.3-R support the Adaptec AVA-2906 SCSI host > adapter? It's not listed in the Release Notes, but it > seems to use the same ASPI family manager under DOS/Windows > as does the 2940, which is encouraging. > > Please e-mail me directly. Thanks! It might be supported, it's hard to say. It appears to be a 7800 family board, so the Adaptec driver is probably capable of supporting it, but if Adaptec has followed their usual pattern, it'll have a unique PCI ID. Therefore the driver may not recognize it, even though the chip on the board is supported. Odds are, you could probably tweak the Adaptec driver probe routine to recognize it, once you figure out what chip is onboard. (Probably a 7855 or 7860.) It doesn't have a BIOS, so you can't boot off it. You'll have to boot off of another SCSI controller or an IDE disk. The easiest way to figure out if it's supported is to stick a 3.3 boot floppy in the machine and see if it probes. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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