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Subject: Re: Q on HDD controller 
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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:16:12 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Hello,
>
>I ran FreeBSD on my old box, but now got new one, which has Adaptec AIC 7870
>chip directly on the MB. Adaptec 2940 is based on it, however, when I tried to
>boot from FreeBSD 2.0 SCSI boot disk, the controller was not recognized.
>
>Q: Does up-to-date version of FreeBSD supports this SCSI chip ?

It was supported from 2.0.5 on.  The most stable version of the driver
to date is availible in 2.1-STABLE or 2.2-CURRENT.

>Q: Will FreeBSD support ATAPI CD-ROMs ?

Preliminary support for ATAPI is availible in 2.1-RELEASE and subsequent
versions of FreeBSD.

>
>Thanks in advance. Dima.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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