[ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 14:13:47 (-0600), Eric Schnoebelen wrote: ]
> Subject: aic7896/7899 host adapters
>
> How much grief am I setting myself up for in trying to use the
> built-in Adaptec AIC7896 and AIC7899 host adapters on my Intel
> ISP2150 and DELL PowerEdge 2450 servers?

From my experience with the AIC7899 and the same motherboard as is in
the ISP2150 it depends almost entirely on what disks you try to use with
the machine.  Ultra-160-LVDs may not work at all, or maybe only one
target per bus will work, and only at Ultra-80 speeds.

> Should I be getting out my hacking gloves, to try and port all
> the lastest changes from the FreeBSD edition of the driver?

It would be _very_ good all-round if you could!

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