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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: Adaptec 2940 Not Found Date: 10 Nov 1995 13:11:01 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 38 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <47vj15$2dp@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <47rfn7$qoo@mail.Rogers.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: blau@mail.rogers.com (Benjamin Lau) In article <47rfn7$qoo@mail.Rogers.Com>, blau@mail.rogers.com (Benjamin Lau) writes: |> 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. Well, the 2.0.5R release supported the Adaptec 2940 (though a lot of minor fixes and major improvements seem to have been done in between :-), but not the chip set of that Compaq series. The problem is, that Compaq designed their chip sets without bothering with details like the PCI 2.0 spec, and made the BIOS hide the problem for all systems that access its functions ... (And the PCI code in FreeBSD doesn't, since there have been more broken PCI BIOS implementations, than broken chip sets, in the first year of PCI, and FreeBSD is about supporting even old and buggy hardware, if possible at all.) FreeBSD 2.1R ought to support your system (try booting from the latest SNAP's boot.flp, to verify this), and I'm quite sure, that FreeBSD-current does ... If you want to stay with 2.0.5, you can use the version of "/sys/i386/isa/pcibus.c" from FreeBSD-current to rebuild your kernel (using the EIDE drive, for example). Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>