Subject: Re: AHA-2920
To: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/01/2001 17:04:34
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:28:23PM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:
> Dear NetBSD/i386:
> 
> It seems that NetBSD/i386 1.5.1 doesn't support Adaptec's AHA-2910 or
> AHA-2920 SCSI adapters; and there's no way around that?
> 
> A CD-ROM drive attached to a (supported) SCSI adapter is "attached" to a cd
> device isn't it?

Yes.

> 
> If a machine had a CD-ROM drive on both an IDE bus and a SCSI adapter which
> would be cd0 and which cd1?

It depends in which order they're probed. As, for now, IDE busses are probed
when a controller is found, and scsi bus are probed once interrupts are
enabled, cd0 will be IDE and cd1 SCSI.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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