Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:21:29 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Mulz" <mginanjar@usa.net> Subject: Re: help! I can't install 2.2.5 to my SCSI drive Message-ID: <199810301525.KAA29119@laker.net>
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:09:13 +0700, Mulz wrote: >I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.5-R to a SCSI disk drive. I'm using >Future Domain TMC-1680 50-pin ISA SCSI controller card and Quantum >Grandprix 4.3 GB. The SCSI card is using IRQ 10 and IO address at 0x140. >These devices are kinda old, from circa 1994 I think. The installation >process just stopped because it can't see my SCSI card and harddisk. I went >to the visual configuration mode and found out that my SCSI card is not >listed there. > >How do I get FreeBSD 2.2.5-R to recognize my SCSI card? I'm installing it >from CD-ROM using a bootdisk. Future Domain has been bought by Adaptec, but >I can't find any info/driver in Adaptec's website. Should I modify >something in the bootdisk, how do I edit it from Windows 95 OS? I don't >have any unix box running. Does anyone know if FreeBSD 3.0-R will detect my >SCSI card? I'd like to know it before I spend a few days downloading it. The freebsd handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook9.html#9 only lists the Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. And if you didn't know enough about FreeBSD to check the handbook, then you are not a good candidate to run 3.0R. 3.0R doesn't support some of the older SCSI that 2.2.7 does. You should buy a newer SCSI card. You don't need an expensive, whiz-bang one, just one that supports booting. Note that Adaptec sells several models that you CAN'T boot from. They like to offer these to OEMs who bundle them with CDwriters, removable media drives, like Jaz, SparQ, SyJet, or SCSI scanners. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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