From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 13:26:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05253 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:26:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sisyphos (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05244 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:26:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sisyphos id AA24734 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.freebsd.org); Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:26:20 +0100 Message-Id: <199603202126.AA24734@Sisyphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:26:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Hong Yan (Karen)" "PCI devices on FreeBSD" (Mar 20, 11:55) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: "Hong Yan (Karen)" Subject: Re: PCI devices on FreeBSD Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mar 20, 11:55, "Hong Yan (Karen)" wrote: } Subject: PCI devices on FreeBSD } Hi, } I now install FreeBSD on a Pentium, this machine has PCI slot, } and I've got a ncr825 PCI-SCSI host adapter. If I want to make this adapter } work on the machine, what should I do? From the "Configuration Options in } FreeBSD", I read that PCI devices are not supported. But I read some pci There has been support for PCI devices in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 already, and it has been extended over time. Where did you get the impression, that there was no support ? That docs will have to be changed ... } source code under the directory "pci/". Shall I write the adapter driver? } And how can I add the new driver? } I'd appreciate it if you can respond at your earliest convinience. The NCR 53c810 works since summer 1994, and the WIDE SCSI code was added later that year. It should work out of the box. What problems do you see ? Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se