From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 14:13:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170D537B728 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.122]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.2) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:15:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3964F682.3C3CCCA@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:13:38 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikko Tyolajarvi Cc: bwoods2@uswest.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adapect AVA-1505/1515 References: <200007062112.XAA26149@m2.dynas.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote: > > In local.freebsd-questions you write: > > >I have an old box with NO pci slots. I have been given an Adaptec > >AVA-1505/1415 ISA SCSI card. Is this supported in FreeBSD? > > A looong time ago I used an AVA1505 to drive my scanner (the card > actually came with the scanner), using the "aic" driver. It required > configuring the card to stop using Plug&Pray, though. > > Chances are it will work, but I would not bet on it. I had to chuckle at your comment. I replaced a 152x with a 2930 because it went to la-la land during boot trying to find the device. All I had on it was a zip drive and scanners. The zip drive is now to small for useful purposes and being able to use the scanner meant one less boot to Win 2000. > > $.02, > /Mikko You could probably bet more than that :). Kent > > -- > Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com > RSA Security > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message