Subject: Re: Support for Adaptec AIC-7895?
To: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com>
From: Robert Agustin, Jr. <agustin@apicom.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/12/1998 12:49:18
At 10:31 AM 1/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Support for the 7895 is only available in the CAM version of the aic7xxx
>driver for FreeBSD. Support for any of the 789X chips requires some fairly
>extensive changes to the way the driver queues up requests so retrofitting
>the CAM changes into the driver that NetBSD currently has is non-trivial.
>This is the same reason the even FreeBSD-current will not have 7895 support
>until the CAM SCSI layer is integrated into the system.
>
>--
>Justin
>
>
>
Thanks for the response! :)
Is there anything that I might be able to do to help whoever's doing this
out? (like alpha/beta testing, etc.)
Is there any sort of rough estimate on when support is going to be added?
Thanks again,
Robert