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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech2!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!homer.alpha.net!mvb.saic.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!uunet.ca!news.uunet.ca!rogers.com!mail.rogers.com!usenet From: blau@mail.rogers.com (Benjamin Lau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help: Adaptec 2940 Not Found Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 23:55:16 GMT Organization: Rogers Communications Inc. Lines: 57 Message-ID: <47rfn7$qoo@mail.Rogers.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.146.58.8 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I've seen a couple of people saying that they had problem with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card (I believe what I have is just a regular 2940, not the 2940W), but I couldn't find anyone responding with the solution. So I assumed the problem could be resolved. I'm experiencing the same problem, and I hope that if you have made it to work, could you please tell me? I'm using a Compaq Deskpro Pentium 133Mhz with 64MB RAM, and 2 Adaptec 2940 PCI (with BIOS version 1.11) cards with no luck. I also have an internal EIDE 1GB drive which I am not planning to use. My intention is to make FreeBSD 2.0.5 (dated June 95) to run only on the 3 internal and external 2GB (Seagate) SCSI drives. This is what I did: 1. Configure the cards not to use shared IRQ, from Compaq's PCI setup. 2. Record all Mem I/O, IRQ etc settings on paper. 3. Set the card to load BIOS. 4. Boot FreeBSD from the install floppy (which is made from the CD). The first problem is that it didn't detect any adaptec SCSI card at all. So, I took out one of the cards, repeated the above steps except that this time I rebooted with the -c (UserConfig) option, when it asked for boot option. I manually changed the settings on the device "ahc1" which I believe that refers to the Adaptec, such as IRQ, IOMEM etc. Then, try a "probe ahc1" and the system hung with some fatal errors on the screen. Then I rebooted again, with -c, changed the settings and went on to "quit" and continue the install process... Same problem, it does not see any Adaptec card at all, and of course it doesn't see the external CD-ROM drive... I quickly went through all the documents again, and again got the same feeling before I purchased all these...that the 2940 IS SUPPORTED!!!! Am I missing something? Thanks in advance. Ben PS. Could you please reply by email 'cause this system is a proof of concept that FreeBSD is a good system to go with than spending extra $$$ to get some Sun boxes?