Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:23:55 +1000 From: Andrew <mynet@uq.net.au> To: Doug Skinner <skinnerd@flash.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: INSTALLING ON SCSI DRIVES Message-ID: <37463F6B.E8EA3DCB@uq.net.au> References: <199905212137.QAA24193@ares.flash.net>
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You might want to pull the card out and have a look at what chip set it uses. Often cards like this will use a chip set from another company. You can then use the generic chip set driver. The Linux driver wont work with FreeBSD. There are plenty of good sites with information on recompiling kernels under either FreeBSD or Linux. Just do a search. Cheers Andrew Doug Skinner wrote: > My computer has an Always Technologies IN-2000 SCSI card. I am trying to > install FreeBSD 3.1 on to it but am > unable to do so because the installation cannot find my drives. The drives > are detected during boot up and > when I boot to DOS I can access them. I suspect the reason the FreeBSD > installation program cannot > see them is because the IN-2000 driver is not part of the boot kernel. > > My first question is: is one of the SCSI devices that are currently part of > the boot kernel equivalent to the > Always Technologies IN-2000 device. If so, which one? My impression is > that this card was once fairly > popular. However the company has gone out of business and they were bought > out by a retail outfit that > provides absolutely no support for the Always Technologies cards. > > My second question is: I have located a LINUX driver for the IN-2000. > Will it work under FreeBSD 3.1? While I > have been working with UNIX type systems for the past year or so, I have > not yet gotten into recompiling > the kernel. I have the LINUX driver source code. Can you point me to some > good resources on the web (or > elsewhere) that tell me in a lot of detail how to make a >bootable< kernel > with this driver compiled in? I would > greatly appreciate sources that are oriented to those who are new to > building kernels. > > Sincerely, > > Douglas Skinner > Chicago, IL > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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