Hi! I am trying to have an Adaptec RAID 3805 controller working on FreeBSD 7.0. According to the release note [1], it's okay. Unfortunately, the driver fails to detect everything as expected. The following is displayed at boot-time:
> aac0: <Adaptec RAID 3805> mem 0xff200000-0xff3fffff irq 16 at device 14.0 on > pci3 > aac0: couldn't allocate register window 0 > device_attach: aac0 attach returned 6 The CD provided with the controller include kernel modules for FreeBSD 5 and 6, but not 7 (I however tried to kldload it (Yes, I am _very_ optimistic by nature) but link_elf fails with "symbol msleep undefined"). The Adaptec website does not provide drivers for FreeBSD 7.0, but has a much more recent version of the driver than the one on the CD, so I fetched it, and tried to compile it (AACRAID 32- and 64-bit Driver Build 15727 for FreeBSD 6.1 and 6.2). I fixed the source the "lazy way", that is fixing that makes the compilation fail untill it pass. The result was not much better: > aacu0: <Adaptec RAID 3805> mem 0xff200000-0xff3fffff irq 16 at device 14.0 on > pci3 > aacu0: couldn't allocate register window 0 > device_attach: aacu0 attach returned 12 So I took the aac(4) source code of FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, 7.0-STABLE and the version of Adaptec and tried to merge changes from 6.2 to 7.0 in the Adaptec code... The result is however almost the same :-( Has anybody tried / succeeded in using such a controller on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT? Has somebody this controller working on FreeBSD 6.3 (I can consider to downgrade to the legacy release if required since the machine is not yet in production)? Thank you! Romain References: 1. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#DISK -- Romain Tartière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://romain.blogreen.org/ pgp: 8DAB A124 0DA4 7024 F82A E748 D8E9 A33F FF56 FF43 (ID: 0xFF56FF43) (plain text =non-HTML= PGP/GPG encrypted/signed e-mail much appreciated)
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