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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!wrdis02.robins.af.mil!usenet From: dnguyen <dnguyen@rcp6.elan.af.mil> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ADAPTEC PCI 2940 CONTROLLER --- HELP!!!! Date: 6 Jan 1996 00:23:01 GMT Organization: Robins AFB, GA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ckfd5$6qo@wrdis02.robins.af.mil> References: <4cehc2$1fh@rcp6.elan.af.mil> <4ci8de$jii@news.voicenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sluggo.elan.af.mil Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; IRIX 5.2 IP22) X-URL: news://wrdis02.robins.af.mil/4ci8de$jii@news.voicenet.com The Notorious B.S.D. (The Notorious B.S.D.) wrote: > >a question like this was asked recently in one of the NT discussion >groups; since NT suddenly refused to acknowledge the existance of the >2940. > >apparantly Adaptec (as i remember) updated the 2940's bios, or >something, and that screwed up NT's auto-detection. there was a way to >identify whether you had one of these new cards, but you'll have to go >(holding your nose) into the NT discussion areas to find this out. > >maybe this is what's going on with your board. First of all, I would like to thanks everyone for replying to my request. After couple days of toying around, I have come to conclusion that the problem is with the Adaptec "New Version" of BIOS. How did I arrive to this conclusion? I borrowed a friend's 2940 that has the "old Version" BIOS and FreeBSD have no problem detecting all the SCSI devices. My next question is: Will the PCI 2940 with the newest BIOS work with FreeBSD 2.1? *Don't want to go through another process of downloading ... Derrick