Adaptec 7805H drivers
Phil Murray
pmurray at nevada.net.nz
Sun Apr 19 23:25:14 UTC 2015
Hi Ian,
Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that but had no luck
Phil
> On 20/04/2015, at 10:20 am, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 09:53 +1200, Phil Murray wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a few Adaptec 7805H HBA cards which FreeBSD doesn’t support natively. However Adaptec have provided binary drivers for FreeBSD 9.2 (9.3 and 10.x support sadly absent).
>>
>> The problem I have is with the GENERIC kernel the compiled in ahd driver tries to attach to the controller and fails. This prevents the pmspcv (Adaptec binary) driver from working.
>>
>> I’d like to keep using GENERIC for freebsd-update etc., so is there a way I can stop the ahd driver from trying to attach without rebuilding the kernel? Perhaps change their priority or precedence somehow?
>>
>> Is porting the open source Linux driver to FreeBSD a possibility?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil
>
> Try setting hw.ahd.0.disabled=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
>
> -- Ian
>
>
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