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From: jjw@tkemi.klb.dtu.dk (Joachim Wlodarz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: AIC-7770 and 3C5x9 question
Date: 26 Jan 1995 09:45:46 GMT
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Evgeny Didenko (eugen@riis.RU) wrote:

: 	I need to install FreeBSD 2.0 on Intel XPress MX computer with
: _onboard_ Adaptec AIC-7770 SCSI controller. Wnen booting from 2.0R floppy,
: FreeBSD recognises it as Adaptec 274x/284x board.

: 	Can I run FreeBSD on this computer ?

Yes. It works fine. The only problem was with the bootmanager coming with
FBSD-2.0-RELEASE, but after installing a generic DOS MBR code all went OK.

Regards,

-jjw.