On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:33:15AM -0600, ed palmer wrote:
> At 12:31 PM 20/04/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:08:11PM -0600, ed palmer wrote:
> >> I'm a newbie with NetBSD, so please excuse any dumb questions.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to get an old EISA DAC960-1/2 raid controller working under
> >> NetBSD 1.5.3_RC1.  I noticed that this particular model isn't listed in
> >> mlx.c as part of mlx_cname, but it's EISA identifier, MLX0073 is listed 
> >in
> >> eisadevs and mlx_eisa.c.
> >
> >There's no mlx_eisa.c in the 1.5 branch, it's there only in -current.
> >Are you sure you looked at the rigth source tree ?
> 
> I think I did.  I didn't compile the source files from -current, I used the 
> binary snapshot.  The first time I loaded NetBSD, I used the 1.5.2 
> binaries.  My card was identified something like 'unknown EISA card 
> MLX0073'.  I finally discovered that support for the card was coming in 
> 1.5.3 so I waited for awhile and recently downloaded the files from:
> 
> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20020312-1.5.3_RC1
> 
> I downloaded everything in this directory and it's subdirectories, created 
> boot floppies from the images in the installation/floppy directory and then 
> reinstalled.
> 
> Now, instead of 'unknown EISA card MLX0073', dmesg shows 'Mylex DAC960', 
> but in both cases, the card wasn't configured.

I checked out again the 1.5 branch; support for eisa MLX isn't there. Only
in -current. You should try the 1.5ZA snapshot.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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