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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec AIC7850 Date: 4 May 1996 21:26:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4mgi1m$mkb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4md4pg$3gi@lynet.lynet.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E uweg@gfsfs.gfs-hl.de (Uwe Gruentjes) wrote: > It's a combined PCI/EISA machine with networking and SCSI 2 on board. > Chipset is Intel Neptune. HD is a Seagate Medalist 1080sl (1 GB), as > tape we use a HP C1536A DAT drive, CD-ROM is a Toshiba XM5301. All > this SCSI stuff is hooked up to the onboard Adaptec AIC7850. Not too > bad, really. But FreeBSD 2.1 refuses to install on it. AIC-7850 hmm..., i can't really remember that number. What is it? PCI? EISA? (I've installed FreeBSD 2.1 on an HP Netserver previosly, and they've got EISA as the primary bus, with an AHA-2740 compatible controller on it.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)