Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:54:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Graham Bignell <lorax@entire.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adaptec 78xx & 3c905TX <- Installing onto. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615214717.2150Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612110342.807C-100000@odin.egate.net>
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Graham Bignell wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to install FreeBSD on a system (detailed below) that has > an on-board adaptec 7800 family SCSI controller as well as a 3com 3C905TX NIC, > I understand the 2.2.6 distribution does not support either but that I might have > luck with one of the 3.0 snapshots. Could you place me on the path to an > install floppy that would work? Can I build 3.0 over ftp? This isn't enough information. There are probably 20 chips in the Adaptec AIC78?? family. Anything below 789x should be fine; the 7895 requires CAM. If the 3com card is the 905B you're sunk, but the straight 905 works fine. > Asus P2B-LS board with onboard Adaptec 2940U controller (on boot I see > a message about the 7890 BIOS.) Hm, Asus's page doesn't list a P2B-LS, there's an L and an S but no LS. The P2B-S says it's a 7890, which requires CAM. A CAM boot floppy and instructions should be here: http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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