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From: wayne@obiwan.pmr.com (Wayne Willcox)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5/EISA/AHA1740 not finding drives
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In article <E1oxwG.Gy1@yedi.iaf.nl>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote:
>j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>
>>"J.C. Archambeau" <jca@accessnv.com> 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
>
>So is my scratch box. No problems with the 1740 whatsoever. It's a
>Philips EISA mainboard BTW
>
>Wilko

I have a 2.1.5 system the is using 2 AHA1740's, has been for over a year.


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