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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!netnews.nwnet.net!nwnet.net!not-for-mail From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony Talltree) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSDi + AHA2944W + Eclipse RAID Date: 18 Nov 1996 14:48:45 -0800 Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth Lines: 61 Message-ID: <56qp4d$os2@olympus.nwnet.net> References: <55j0ci$8l8@gol1.gol.com> <56e1qh$4t8@oldman.steinkamm.com> <56glrn$c1k@olympus.nwnet.net> <E10H2w.BC0@spcuna.spc.edu> Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.nwnet.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5305 comp.os.linux.misc:142472 >> >-) The adaptec cards are not the main target which is supportet by BSDi. >> > Read the hardware compatibilty lists >> Both BSDI's published list and what they told me in response to a support >> ticket are inaccurate. > Eh? As far as I can tell the documentation has correctly described the >support at the time each release has been shipped. BusLogic support has >always been better than Adaptec support, though lots of the Adaptec boards >are now supported. I still like the BusLogic products, though. > You're not still talking about the wide-mode support (the "wide control- >lers are only supported in narrow mode" paragraph), are you? Yes, partially. The 2.1 book says that about the Adaptec boards, but doesn't list the wide or differential Buslogic boards at all. support@bsdi.com told me explicitly that no wide and no differential Buslogic boards would at all. You did indeed give me the information that showed that they were wrong. Even now I can't get multiple BT946C's to stay up for more than a week (90MHz CPU) or more than a day (133 or 150 MHz). >motherboard that arbitrated the bus properly (Neptune-based boards such as >the Intel Plato had a problem when more than 2 bus masters are installed). I bought a Tyan Tomcat II to make sure, though the supplied manual doesn't seem to directly address the issue. > The only problem I can see is that the newer BusLogic cards only offer the >"primary" (330) and "alternate" (334) address settings for "ISA compatible >port" in their setup menu Are these settings really important for PCI cards on BSDI machine, though? The description in the manual seems to imply that it's only for software that doesn't know about the PCI interface. Is this something that would prevent the card from working reliably, or just prevent it from showing up? After adding the requisite kernel config lines for bha2, I haven't had any problems getting them to show up, modulo the usual absurdity that the IRQ has to be set in both the card and the motherboard. >so the third (and so on) cards would need a "-dev >bha2 port=6000" (or whereever your BIOS configures it) Would I then set it to 'disabled' in Auto-SCSI? > You seem to doubt that 3.0 will ship No, I'm sure it'll ship some year to somebody. I'm not so convinced that it'll ship soon, or to us without us calling BSDI and asking for it. >I've heard of several controller-based products >which have drivers for BSD/OS (I think DPT is one) Their products are very expensive, though, and neither DPT nor the local distributor will lend me a demo unit to see if it'd work for me. I'd hate to drop >$1000 just to see if it'll work. >The patch situation has gotten better since the 1.0 days I *really* would have hated to have been there.