On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:54:21AM +0600, Anton Maksimenkov wrote:
> >Joachim Schipper wrote:
> >> 'not configured' typically means the kernel knows what it is, but
> >> doesn't know what to do with it.
> >More specifically, it means that the kernel knows the PCI device's ID
> >and vendor, but doesn't have a driver to hook it to.
> >FreeBSD supports it with the ips driver and it appears to be non-BLOB;
> >the original commit message also implies that it's actually an Adaptec
> >card, so it might be as easy as hooking it to an existing Adaptec
> >driver. (I doubt it, but it may be worth a shot.)
>
> Ok, I uncomment the aac driver in kernel, for testing reasons, and
> rebuild. The card is steel not recognized (by aac). I thinking about
> to try to add it to aac.
> Sad, but writing (porting) ips driver is not my skills... But I want
> to try to add hooks to aac_pci.c and test. WHERE TO GET THE MAGIC
> NUMBER for "pcidevs" file?
> For example, I see there
> product ADP2 SERVERAID 0x0250 ServeRAID
> So I think that my ServeRAID's number is not the "0x0250", but
> how/where can I get it?
Aside from the other comments, I'll add that aac(4) was disabled because
it was buggy and Adaptec wouldn't provide documentation.
Theo was quite clear about this at the time, see the 3.8 release notes.
Joachim
