On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Warner Losh wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Moran writes: >: Anyone using an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller? ( It's pretty new and I >: know it's not technically supported, but I was wondering if anyone had >: tried it and got it working? For example, does it emulate another >: Adaptec adapter? Will another adaptec driver work with it? Timeline >: forces me to be sure before I purchase. >: Any feedback is greatly appreciated (works, doesn't work, etc) > >I'm using the 19160, the younger brother of the 29160. It works >great! I'm glad Warner is having better luck. I don't know which variant of the 29160 you are looking at Bill, but I still don't have my two controllers working. I have a motherboard (Supermicro 370DL3) with an onboard 29160 (Adaptec AIC7892) plus an additional 64-bit PCI 29160 sitting in it. When installating 4.1-RELEASE these controllers will hang at random points during installation. When installing 4.1.1-RELEASE they panic on boot during the probe. When installing recent -current snaps on the machine the same thing also happens. The only revision of the driver that seems to install and boot fine on this combination is src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c,v1.47. I have not had time to collect additional information on the panic's as I'm just finishing up a theatre production which has taken much of my time. Hopefully at some point I can sit down with a serial console and a debug kernel and get Justin the specifics he needs to fix it. Be forewarned. I hate to tell you this, and hope if you do buy one you'll have better luck. I don't know what else to tell you to buy, since these are in my opinion the best SCSI controllers on the market right now. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
