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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ALWAYS AL3000 PCI SCSI controller Date: 21 Nov 1995 22:28:18 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 39 Message-ID: <48tjq2$r7a@times.tfs.com> References: <48svds$33qr@te6000.otc.lsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <48svds$33qr@te6000.otc.lsu.edu>, philip elcan <elcan@phwave.phys.lsu.edu> wrote: >I just recently purchased a new PC. I bought a SCSI controller and disk. I >asked for an NCR PCI controller, but ended up with an ALWAYS AL-3000 which has >an AMD pcscsi chip in it. The salesman said that it had the same spec's as the >NCR card, and I made the mistake of thinking that he knew what he was talking >about and thought maybe it actually had an NCR chip on it. I see where >thinking got me, so now I'm going to ask you to do some thinking for me, >please. NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER trust a computer Salesman.. he only wants to sell what he has.. I suggest a baseball bat personally and go back and try get a NCR-BASED (also cheaper) card.. tell him he LIED and you want YOUR ORIGINAL REQUESTED PART that is unless the AMD is a second source for the NCR part, but it doesn't sound like it.. >Now, i'm trying to run FreeBSD. Here's where I stand... > >When I boot off of the boot.flp the probe finds it, but says: > >pci0:8: AMD, device=0x2020, class=storage (scsi) [no driver assigned] > >I assumed based on this and the list of supported scsi adapters, that it's not >supported, eh? :) Do I have any options besides getting a new scsi card? nope (well, you could contact Always tech and get programming specs from them, then you could writ ethe driver.. I've done 4 (SCSI drivers) and they aren't that difficult.. (as long as they are "intelligent" devices.. More chip-level drivers such as the aic7770 and NCR drivers are a lot more work) but as far as installing.. no, you need to start with a board that has a driver :) >Thanks, >Philip