freebsd stable - Apr 2015 - Adaptec 7805H drivers

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

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