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Subject: Re: Help! Cannot install from Adaptec AHA-2940AU PCI Ultra SCSI
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Dan ann Darryl,

Thank you for the help. I was looking through the release notes for 
FreeBSD 2.2 and noticed that one of the improvements over 2.1 is support 
for  the Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers. Since I don't have a 
big DOS partition to eaily download stuff to I guess I will wait until 
Walnut Creek sends me 2.2-Relase on CD-ROM.

Best Regards,
Matt

Daniel M. Eischen wrote:
> 
> > Yes, the 2.1.5 Release of FreeBSD should work on the 7860 controller
> > chip.  The 7860 is just an Ultra version of the 7850 controller.
> > Both the 7850 and the 7850 are *not* totally compatible with the
>                         ^^^^ 7860
> > aha2940 (7870/7880) adapters.  Where the 7870 and 7880-based adapters
> > have 15 internal SCBS, the 7850 and 7860 have only 3 SCBs.
>        ^^ 16
> 
> Sorry about the typos!
> 
> Dan Eischen
> deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org