Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 01:23:19 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Scott Worthington <SWorthington@hsag.com> Cc: Steve.Kreha@nstarch.com, Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question regarding adaptec 1520 SCSI card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911160118170.91351-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <s8302375.043@internal.hsag.com>
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I have an adaptec 1520 (I know I should just get rid of it) but will try to build a release and floppies (and a GENERIC kernel) that include the driver. I've tried it on -current and it had some trouble with the cdrom. So it might be an ftp-install situation (it handled the scsi hard drives just fine). I would build a RELENG_3 version. Anybody else interested, assuming the make release works? Annelise On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Scott Worthington wrote: > Ahhh, you supplied the needed information. > > 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 > 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: > This email is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the > intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or > reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal > offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the > sender. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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