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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] DEC pc/XL 590 install problem
Date: 26 May 1995 19:26:54 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3q5a1u$5ja@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <1995May26.172952.5855@il.us.swissbank.com>
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mastroj@swissbank.com wrote:
] I've had great success installing FreeBSD on a few systems and am attempting
] to help a friend with trouble (and no net access). Here's the system info:
] DEC pc/XL 590 w/48Mb RAM, plenty of HD space, and AHA 2940 SCSI controller.
] The DEC has an onboard controller that he has disabled through the BIOS in
] favor of the Adaptec.
]
] When booting off the boot floppy (image from 2.0R CDROM), FreeBSD sees the
] onboard NCR SCSI rather than the Adaptec and just hangs. Nothing else
] happens.
Get a more recent snap, or get 2.0.5 when it is released (RSN).
The 2.0R version did not have AHA2940 support.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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