From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Nov 19 12:29:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA02059 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:29:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.166.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01993 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:29:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr2-49.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA29273 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:29:10 +0100 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.8.3/8.6.9) id UAA00714; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:38:45 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199611191938.UAA00714@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:37:25 +0100 From: se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser) To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BusLogic FlashPoint LT - supported or not? References: <199611181516.QAA00570@freebie.lemis.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.49-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199611181516.QAA00570@freebie.lemis.de>; from Greg Lehey on Nov 18, 1996 15:46:27 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Nov 18, grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) wrote: > I've just bought some components to build some machines for a customer > of mine, and they stipulated BusLogic 946C or nothing--they want to > run a number of OSs on this machine, including Plan 9, which doesn't > seem to run on anything else. I've tried booting FreeBSD 2.1.5, That's not true! I've seen the Plan 9 driver (it was released at least one year ago) and it seemed a clean design, even with support for tags. > BSD/OS 2.2, and SCO V.3.2.5 (so-called 5.0) on the system. FreeBSD > finds the host adapter, and says it doesn't have a driver for it. The Please give the EXACT probe message. (Best from a boot with "-v".) > others don't find anything. Can anybody confirm or deny that this is > in fact not compatible? It's not enough to have a FreeBSD driver for > it, since they want to run other OSs as well. The 946 is supported under FreeBSD, the Flashpoint isn't, since Buslogic does not release the necessary information. Regards, STefan