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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  
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