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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!news.gtn.com!lynet.LyNet.De!news From: uweg@gfsfs.gfs-hl.de (Uwe Gruentjes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec AIC7850 Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 09:15:52 GMT Organization: GfS Luschendorf Lines: 44 Message-ID: <4mkft7$me1@lynet.LyNet.De> References: <4md4pg$3gi@lynet.lynet.de> <4mgi1m$mkb@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm-hl236.lynet.de X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > 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.) Excerpt from Adaptec documentation: The information in this guide applies to the following Adaptec PCI-to-SCSI host adapters, which are referred to collectively as the Adaptec 7800 Family host adapters: - AHA-2940 PCI-to-Fast SCSI - AHA-2940W PCI-to-Fast and Wide Single-ended SCSI - AHA-2944W PCI-to-Fast and Wide Differential SCSI - AHA-3940 MultiChannel SCSI-to-PCI - AHA-3940W MultiChannel Wide SCSI-to-PCI - AIC-7850 single-chip PCI-to-Fast SCSI - AIC-7870 single-chip PCI-to-Fast and Wide SCSI Therefore as you can see this controller is PCI and should be AHA-2940 compatible (?) except that it's a single-chip version. suhman@zelax.zgrad.su (Sergey Suhman) suggested by eMail that 2.1R doesn't support this controller. He told me to try 2.2-960501-SNAP ... [ Posted and eMailed ] Regards, Uwe -- Uwe Gruentjes, GfS mbH, Abt. EDV, Luschendorf, Germany Voice +49 4504 8100 36 Fax +49 4504 8100 37 PGP public key available: finger uweg@lynet.de For eMail, please use : uweg@gfsfs.gfs-hl.de