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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.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: OH NO! AHC0 is not in the GENERIC kernel! Date: 26 Feb 1996 20:48:40 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 42 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <4gt6b8$1o4@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <DnDnJ7.5uI@gil.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: kfd@gil.com.au (Kevin) Bcc: se In article <DnDnJ7.5uI@gil.com.au>, kfd@gil.com.au (Kevin) writes: |> Dear FreeBSD users, |> |> I have just received two servers running |> adaptec 2940 WIDE SCSI and I am unable to |> install FreeBSD. Which version of FreeBSD ? |> The install program does not recognise the |> adapter! The device name ahc0 does NOT appear |> in the GENERIC kernel! It is definitely present in FreeBSD-2.1R, the current CDROM version ... |> I have $10000 worth of hardware I cannot use?! You spent $10000 on two 2940s ? Seems way too expencive :) |> Can anyone suggest a solution? How can I install |> with this hardware? Your problem report wasn't really detailed. (Well, we now know how much you spent on those systems, but that doesn't help understand what is going wrong.) Please tell about which PCI devices, if any, are found. (Enter "-v" at the "Boot: " prompt for verbose boot messages.) What's the chip set in those systems ? (Not, by chance, a Compaq TriFlex ?) 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>