current state of ahd driver

Vahan Yerkanian vahan at arminco.com
Tue Apr 6 07:04:55 PDT 2004


Dear Justin,

I've followed your advise and disabled the eisa from the kernel (and why 
it's still there in the GENERIC...). The problem vanished and the box is 
working happily on scsi320 seagate drives and aic7902 with the 
out-of-box freebsd 4.9 ahd drivers.

Thanks,
Vahan

Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> Neither 4.9 nor 5.2.1 have the lastest ahd driver.  You should be
> able to pull the driver from either the -stable or -current branch
> and rebuild a kernel for either of these releases to effect an upgrade
> to the latest drivers.  However, if I had to hazard a guess as to
> why things are not happy, it would be that FreeBSD's EISA probe is
> running into the controller.  It used to be that you could disable
> EISA probing from userconfig (which only applies to -stable), but I
> haven't look into this for some time.
> 
> --
> Justin
> 


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