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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!raven.eva.net!bighorn.accessnv.com!jca From: jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5/EISA/AHA1740 not finding drives Date: 29 Nov 1996 06:27:07 GMT Organization: Access Nevada Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <57lvnr$g3n@raven.eva.net> References: <329B228D.167EB0E7@microware.com> <57fght$le8@raven.eva.net> <57l3eb$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bighorn.accessnv.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: :> Well, you need to submit a problem report. It is quite possible that :> the 174x driver was broken during the upgrade process. One harsh reality :> with EISA systems is that there is little support for EISA cards and what :> little support may end up getting broken during a kernel upgrade. : EISA systems are not broken per se. Our scratch machine at work is a : PCI/EISA machine with an AHA2742 in it, and it has been running all : kinds of FreeBSD systems on it, up and including 2.2-ALPHA. The 274x and the 174x are two totally different animals. They are not device driver interchangeable. That was the big stink that happened when Adaptec dumped the 174x and replaced it with the 274x. You couldn't use it with anything other than MS-DOS because there were no drivers for it. It doesn't even have a 154x compatability mode like the 174x does. -- /* ** Internet: jca@accessnv.com | Don't blame me, I didn't vote for Clinton. ** jca@anv.net | Intel is the word for 'errata.' */