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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Procom SCSI Accelerator
Date: 18 Jan 1997 23:05:54 GMT
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Korognai Janos Kornel <korognai@szif.hu> wrote:

> I have a Procom SCSI Accelerator and three SCSI hard disk drive
> (160Mb,80Mb,80Mb - stripped). I want to install FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE to
> this stripped 340MB drive.
> 
> Any driver for this SCSI card?

Certainly not.

> Can I install the FreeBSD or need I
> search for an AT bus hard disk? :)

Search for a supported host adapter instead. :-) If you've got a PCI
board, the SymBios (formerly NCR) parts are interesting and cheap.

Installing onto a striped drive (the `ccd' driver) is not supported.
Unless you're doing this out of curiosity, i probably wouldn't
recommend striping at all for such small disks.  It's probably simpler
to use them for different filesystems.  If they were my disks, i would
do it as:

	sd0 (80 MB)	sd0a	20 MB	UFS	/
			sd0b	10 MB		swap
			sd0e	50 MB	UFS	/var

	sd1 (80 MB)	sd1b	10 MB		swap
			sd1e	70 MB	UFS	/home

	sd2 (160 MB)	sd2b	10 MB		swap
			sd2e	150 MB	UFS	/usr

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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