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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!wrdis02.robins.af.mil!rcp6.elan.af.mil!usenet From: dnguyen <dnguyen@rcp6.elan.af.mil> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ADAPTEC PCI 2940 CONTROLLER --- HELP!!!! Date: 10 Jan 1996 16:30:09 GMT Organization: Air Force Flight Test Center Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4d0pih$d8n@rcp6.elan.af.mil> References: <4cehc2$1fh@rcp6.elan.af.mil> <4ci8de$jii@news.voicenet.com> <4ckfd5$6qo@wrdis02.robins.af.mil> <30F1C0E4.167EB0E7@accom.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:30F1C0E4.167EB0E7@accom.com Colin Jensen <cj@accom.com> wrote: >dnguyen wrote: >> 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 > >Yes, 2.1 handles the newer 2940 correctly. > >It's also pretty easy to look at the 2.1 source and figure out what >change is required, and add the change back into 2.0.5 (you could >boot and recompile the kernel using your friend's 2940). But that >would be work. Thanks for all replying. My system is finally working properly with the latest FreeBSD 2.1.