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        "James Warthen" <mythink@mail.redshift.com>
Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD-ROM
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 11:51:58 -0500
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James Warthen wrote:
> Hardware:
> 
> aha-2842vl (adaptec VLB SCSI Controller)
> 		Maxtor 540 hd
> 		Sanyo 4x CD-ROM
> AMD DX4-100 CPU
> Geneo Motherboard
> Generic muti I/O Card w/ 16550 chip set 
> 		com1:	3f8/4
> 		com2:	2f8/3
> 		lpt0:	378/7
> Diamond Speed Star (VLB Video Card)
> (NO IDE HD OR CD-ROM's)
> 
> PROBLEM: The boot disk fails to intialized the scsi controller, In the
> Visual editor every other scsi controller comes up and I remove them
since
> the aha2842 is listed unde PCI devices. when I quit the Visual setup It
> scans for device but I don't see it scaning for aha0 or aic0 or any thing
> vaguely resembling my controller. I would like a image disk specific to
my
> system like what is issued with Linux.
> 
> 
> (This system had Linux on it before and windows 95 recently. The Hardware
> is in perfect condition.)
> 
>
Do you have an ethernet card?I have the same hardware basically. 
 My ethernet card is an INTEL PRO 10.
When I changed the irq to 10 and io to 0x310 from 0x300, everything was
recognized and
everything started working.
started working.  I don't know why