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To: conta@alpo.casc.com (Alex Conta)
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI on Compaq ProLinea 5100 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:20:34 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:53:40 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>
>SCSI hardware/freebsd problem:
>
>1.
>
>I have an Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI-2 adapter that works just fine under FreeBSD
>2.1 on a DEC Starion 960 PC (SCSI-2 hard disk drive + cd-rom).
>
>The same adapter  works fine on a Compaq ProLinea 5100 (SCSI hard disk and 
>cd-rom) under Windows 3.1, but it does not work when I try to install FreeBSD
>from a CD-ROM distribution.
>
>The installation fails because the adapter is not recognized. Booting with 
>"-c" and setting manually the IRQ, Port Address, and other parameters didn't
>help.

The 2940 shouldn't show up in Userconfig anymore.  It is not an ISA device.

>Known problem? Known solution?

This is the first I've heard of this kind of problem.  Perhaps our PCI
code is having problems with this board.

>Alex
>

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Justin T. Gibbs
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