Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:34:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Roger P. Johnson" <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD *ever* fix their 2940U drivers ??????????????? Message-ID: <19990122113403.R417@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901212151.PAA21383@fep.hirshfields.com>; from Roger P. Johnson on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:51:51PM -0600 References: <36A3A3B8.D1952D5E@tdx.co.uk> <199901212151.PAA21383@fep.hirshfields.com>
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[Format recovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Thursday, 21 January 1999 at 15:51:51 -0600, Roger P. Johnson wrote: >> >> I too have around 6-7 of these controllers, some work - some don't >> work... I was talking to a guy a while ago with a view of >> publishing our findings... Basically 'some cards don't work with >> some boards', I beleive theres timing problems (or similar) with >> some cards, and some motherboards... > > Has anyone tried a different brand contoller under this > circumstance ? > > Would it even matter ? Does FreeBSD use the same SCSI controller > "guts" for all PCI SCSI cards ? No. > I am looking at Buslogic BT-956C (F/W) and BT-948 (Ultra Narrow), > but of courese I cannot find any documentaion (as of 2.2.6) that the > BT-948 is supported. Is anyone using it ?? I'm not. The BT-948 is supported in 3.1-STABLE, but not in 2.2.8. You can find this information in /usr/src/release/texts/RELNOTES.TXT. > I'm curious enough to find a solution bad enough to risk getting > burned (again), and try the Buslogic card. As I said before, I think you are looking in the wrong place. You will probably fail. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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