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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: AH2840 VL Date: 11 Aug 1994 05:59:23 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32cenr$3bk@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <32a3od$1ab@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <michaelv.776576696@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <michaelv.776576696@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: ] In <32a3od$1ab@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: ] ] >I don't know if this is a name for an adaptec controller though but ] >I was phoning with a site today which wanted to have FreeBSD installed ] >and I asked them for their HW configuration. The guy said it was (from ] >the system startup log messages) a AH2840 VL. ] ] >I have the bad feeling that I will be out of luck installing FreeBSD on ] >that machine (or is there a gleam of hope?) ] ] Not even a glimmer... How about 2 glimmers? 1) There's an Alpha AHA2740 (also an AIC7770) driver for Linux in the Alpha directory on sunsite.unc.edu. The difference is the AHA2840 is a VLB card (not that much difference -- the dirver "should work for the 2840" according to the authors. 2) You don't need to sign non-disclosure to use the default microcode in these things (once again, people, ask yourselves, if it doesn't have any microcode until you put it there, how the hell can DOS boot from it?). You just need to get docs for the default stuff (available). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.