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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD-2.0 & AIC6360 VLB SCSI
Date: 29 Jul 94 14:24:53 GMT
Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines)
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A while back I posted a question asking if FreeBSD did or would support
the AIC6360 (Adaptec) SCSI chipset - I received numerous responses
from both NetBSD and FreeBSD people (thanks to those if I didn't already
say so btw!) - someone sent me the NetBSD driver and some basic instructions
on how to patch it in, but this didn't work out too well on FreeBSD-1.0
(which I was running at the time).

I'm now running FreeBSD-1.1 and I don't intend upgrading further until
a month or so after 2.0 comes out.  I understand that someone is working
on an AIC6360 driver for FreeBSD-2.0 and I have been told this driver
may slot into a 1.1 kernel with a little bit of work.

I had been holding off asking this question until I received my new
VLB motherboard - but now it has arrived I would really like to use
the VL-300 (VLB) SCSI card (AIC6360)...

Could one of the person(s) working on the FreeBSD core team writing the 2.0
AIC6360 driver *please* drop me an Email message with both the code for
the driver and some simple instructions on how to slot it into the
kernel (ie: Makefile mods, etc) - this would be *most* appreciated!

Thanks 


Leigh
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| "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart                |
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