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From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5 doesn't see the 2940U and more
Date: 9 Jan 1997 13:04:54 GMT
Organization: Volvo Corp.
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In your place i would avoid compac as platform for unix.

It's simply not pc-compatible.

my5c


Rick Verhaalen (rickver@jci.com) wrote:
: On a Compaq Deskpro 6000 with a 2940U the ahc0 driver is never loaded and
: no PCI devices shown in the view mode of config. The 2.1.6 boot floppy will
: see the PCI bus but I would like to use the 2.1.5 CD.  Also the CD on the
: secondary IDE port (irq 15, I/O 170 is not detected).  Any ideas?  I'm
: about ready to download 2.1.6 to my DOS partition and install from there.


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