Adaptec RAID 3805 and FreeBSD 7.0

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Wed May 14 04:54:31 UTC 2008


Romain Tartière wrote:
> 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 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

> 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)?

Did you try last 8.0-CURRENT snapshot?
I remember that Ed made many changes in aac(4) driver in CURRENT..
If it will not work then fill problem report.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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