Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 17:46:48 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: haseltin@metronet.com (Doug Haseltine) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Those Adaptec folks... Message-ID: <199504080046.RAA01101@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 1995 18:46:01 CDT." <199504072346.AA19132@metronet.com>
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>Greetings: > >I had the misfortune to purchase a Pentium 90 with an Adaptec 2940W card >recently. >From what I've seen of this controller's performance, its not THAT unfortunate. >Then I found out that neither Linux nor FreeBSD are supported on this >particular card yet. Email Both FreeBSD and Linux support this card. More on this later. >to Adaptec on future plans to support Intel based UNIX resulted in a terse >message that >there was no Linux driver for the 2940W yet (I knew that). If I can aid in >the encouragement >of one of your ambitious developers to finish a PCI 2940W SCSI controller >patch with a >monetary contribution, please let me know. If such a driver is already >finished by the time >you read this could you please inform the 2940W users where this driver can >be found. Who else besides you should I enform? :) Anyway, you should try the 950322-SNAP on ftp.cdrom.com (/pub/FreeBSD/950322-SNAP/floppies/boot.flp) and see if it works for you. The current driver has seen many revisions since that floppy was generated. I plan on releasing an interrum floppy sometime later tonight with an updated kernel. It should be availible in the 950322-SNAP/floppies/newer directory when I'm done. The FreeBSD driver uses an enhanced version of the sequencer code that was developed by John Aycock in the Linux camp. My changes are filtering into the Linux kernel too, but an official release of their new driver is not due for a week or so. If your chosen operating system turns out to be FreeBSD (and I hope it does :), I'm the person you should contact if you experience any troubles getting your Adaptec card to work. > >I've only seen one alpha version of a 2940 driver on a Calgary site that was >not quite >functional yet (at least not on my setup). Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks. > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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