Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:14:43 -0700 From: "Scott Worthington" <SWorthington@hsag.com> To: <Steve.Kreha@nstarch.com> Cc: <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question regarding adaptec 1520 SCSI card Message-ID: <s8302375.043@internal.hsag.com>
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Ahhh, you supplied the needed information. =20
You need the aic0 driver on a _boot_ floppy. Remeber,
the aic0 driver was only recently (less than 30 days ago)
put into the 3-STABLE branch. Therefore, neither the 3.2
CD-ROM nor the 3.3 CD-ROM will contain that code...it is
only available on the Internet. You only have a 3.2
CD-ROM disk set and the boot disk from 3.2.
You could: 1. Down grade to 2.2.8 and wait for the CD-ROM
distribution to contain the aic0 driver in the boot image,
2. Find someone to create a boot floppy with aic0 dirver
support (possibly from the 3-STABLE branch), and then
load the rest of FreeBSD from the CD-ROM (3.3, though) and
then you will have to get current by CVS to get the aic0
code...
3. See if someone else on this list has some other brilliant
ideas....
Maybe, money aside, getting a supported SCSI card?
--That last note is probably NOT what you wanted to hear.
>>> <Steve.Kreha@nstarch.com> 11/15/99 01:46PM >>>
Hi Scott,
Thanks for the reply. I guess the bottom line is that I am having this
problem at install time. Since the driver does not seem to be loaded when
the floppies are made (I don't have a bootable CDROM) from the rawrite
commands I cannot access the CD to install the OS. Do you have any ideas =
as
to how to solve this problem. Is it possible to get a boot floppy that =
will
recognize this SCSI adapter (aic0).
Thanks again
Steve
"Scott Worthington" <SWorthington@hsag.com> on 11/15/99 12:42:29 PM
To: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Kreha/US/NSC/ICI,
papalia@UDel.Edu=20
cc:
Subject: Re: question regarding adaptec 1520 SCSI card
This is just a follow up to the aic0 driver issue...
It is my understanding that support for the aic0 driver under
3.3 was recently placed into the 3-STABLE branch at the
end of October / beginning of November. The outlying
issue was that the driver was not camified...that is,
3.x uses camcontrol for the SCSI device drivers and
the aic0 driver was not converted yet--until just
recently.
There is a big push in the mobile community for the
aic0 driver because this allows laptop users have
support again for their SCSI devices. Mainly, users
who have the Adaptec 1460 PC Card.
While I do not have a 1520 SCSI card, I do have
a 1460 PC Card. The aic0 driver will compile, but
I have not yet been able to get the pccardd daemon
to work yet.
Finally, you can get the aic0 code by CVSing to
3-STABLE.
I personally use the cvsup program on the workstations
(via ethernet) as well as on my IBM laptop (via ppp) to
get the current stable code of the 3.x branch.
>>> John <papalia@UDel.Edu> 11/15/99 10:09AM >>>
Hi steve,
> I hope this is the correct place for a question of this nature. If not
>please let me know where I should direct the email.
> I hope you can help. I am upgrading from FreeBSD 2.2 to 3.2.2. The 2.2
>release had a driver (AIC0) and support for an adaptec 152x (AHA1520) =
SCSI
>card. It appears that 3.2.2 does not have this same driver (my system
>doesn't find the CDROM). Do you know if this is true and if so are there
>any plans to have
How do you have the controller defined within your kernel? I took a look
at my LINT file (for 3.3), and it shows:
# aic: Adaptec 152x
controller aic0 at isa? port ? cam irq ?
I believe this might be slightly different for 3.2, so you might want to
look at your own LINT file (/sys/i386/conf/LINT). Also, is your CDROM the
only device on that SCSI card? Or is are there other devices as well? And
if there are, are they working correctly?
--John
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