From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 13 5:32:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC8614CAF for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 05:32:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (TC4-dial-202-215.oldslip.inch.com [207.240.215.202]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA20341; Thu, 13 May 1999 08:29:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199905131229.IAA20341@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Johan Kruger" , "Roger P. Johnson" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:31:35 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Adaptec support in kernel Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I know all about this gotcha. >There is some quirk with the FreeBSD 2940 driver and your motherboard. >> I have a problem with the Adaptec 2940 AU adapter, it's aic is 7860. >> I know that the aic 7880 works, but i must get this one to work, >> It gives the following error on bootup, and then just stops : >> ahc0: board is not responding Johan, I just had this problem and a look in the archives suggested a conflict between the Adaptec card and the computer. I had a 2940U in another computer which I replaced and worked. Then I installed the 2940AU where I got the 2940U from and it also worked in THAT computer. I recommend you try to get a different controller, preferably either a different model (i.e 2940U) or a different brand all together, like Roger suggested. My search in the archives did not find a single person that got things to work without changing the card after having got the "board not responding" error from their Adaptec. The 2940U I used is over a year old so I don't know if newer 2940Us would work. In case you are not aware the difference between the U and the AU is that the U is an OEM controller, other than that they should be almost identical. I say almost, because I found at least one difference in the SCSI select betweent the two. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message