Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:13:43 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: bmcgover@cisco.com (Brian McGovern) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newer Adaptec 2940 on older driver... Message-ID: <199811170613.XAA03007@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199811161521.KAA08897@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> from Brian McGovern at "Nov 16, 98 10:21:12 am"
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Brian McGovern wrote... > I just bought a couple of the Adaptec 2940U2W controllers. After running > several versions of FreeBSD, I found that they weren't recognized with > 2.2.6, 2.2.7, but were with 3.0. > > After some poking the drivers look pretty much the same. The driver changed very significantly between 2.x and 3.0. > What I'm wondering is if I can get these cards working by popping in the PCI > device IDs for the U2Ws in to aic7870.c (in 2.2.6 or 2.2.7), and be up and > running; or whether there were more significant changes to support these > cards? Yes, very significant changes. In other words, don't try it. > In short, I don't want to just "try it", as it involves building a custom > release to get the boot floppy support by default.... So, if its a no-go, > I'd just like to install 3.0 on my new server, rather than playing with > 2.2.X for the next couple of days, just to have it fail. Install 3.0, or the 2.2-stable CAM snapshot here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/development/cam/... KEn -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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