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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!not-for-mail From: julian@DIALix.oz.au (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Adaptec 274X SCSI adapter Date: 30 Sep 1993 16:55:36 +0800 Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 34 Message-ID: <28e6u8$o3i@DIALix.oz.au> References: <pgb1.749104573@Ra.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.dialix.oz.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) In <pgb1.749104573@Ra.MsState.Edu> pgb1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Patrick Bridges) writes: >I see this adapter mentioned nowhere in the docs. I know someone >who just purchased one, and On boot of FreeBSD, it claims that the >board does not respond to a uha_init... I realize the board may >not be supported at all, but... >Can it operate as a 1742, or can XXXBSD drive it directly, >or am I SOL? there is no aha274x driver.. The 2742 is: 1/ buggy by all reports 2/ totally incompatible with anything in the (known) universe 3/ apparently designed to only run with adaptec supplied drivers which apparently have to be quite low level. (and which you have to PAY to get) (for some strange reason they haven't written 386bsd or linux drivers 8-) Of course, I'm 85% the way through rewriting the scsi system, so if anyone wants to send me a 2742 and a manual, a driver might magically appear 8-) adaptec needs it's coporate head read.. I recommend either: aha1742, or a bt742 for EISA bt445 or Ultrstore 34f for VESA there is a driver for the 24F in the wings. julian (in a rare fit of news reading)