freebsd stable - Apr 2015 - Adaptec 7805H drivers

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

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
> 
>