From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 20:55:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA23483 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA23476 Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:55:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199602270455.UAA23476@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: Host localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Marcelino Enriquez cc: mars@pasteur.eecs.berkeley.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI Support In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:02:50 PST." <199602262202.OAA09284@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:55:56 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >As Justin T. Gibbs would have said it: >> >> >Hi there my name is Marcelino and I have encountered some problems with >> >installing FreeBSD on my system. >> > >> >Here is the Specs >> > >> >Motherboard - lightning series w/ built-in SCSI support using an Adaptic >> >7840 chip >> >> I would guess you mean a 7850. Its not currently supported (as you found >> out), but work is in progress to try and get aic7850 support functional >> in the ahc driver. The problems with the 7850 have been very elusive >> though, so I can't say when the problems will be fixed. >> > >Hi Justin, Thanks for the response. I was just wondering if you knew >about when i should look forward to a FreeBSD distribution that will work. >Otherwise I'll just grab another SCSI card for now. I just regained a PCI machine recently, so as soon as David Greenman returns my 7850 card, I'll be looking into the problem again. I can't say when we will have support for it, but hopefully before 2.1.5 goes out the door. >BTW How many people are working on the scsi part of the kernel? For the aic7xxx driver, that would be me, myself, and I. The rest of the SCSI system would be Joerg Wunch, Peter Dufault, Stephan Esser, Julian Elisher, and me. If you can afford one, the 2940 is really nice. Oh, and if you get your self up and running to the point where you can compile kernels, I may be able to ship you patches that work on the 7850 before there is boot media generally availible with the patches. Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you... been really swamped at work. > >-- >marc@soda.berkeley.edu -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================