From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 21:54:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08268 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08263 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02762; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:54:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:54:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Graham Bignell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adaptec 78xx & 3c905TX <- Installing onto. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Graham Bignell wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to install FreeBSD on a system (detailed below) that has > an on-board adaptec 7800 family SCSI controller as well as a 3com 3C905TX NIC, > I understand the 2.2.6 distribution does not support either but that I might have > luck with one of the 3.0 snapshots. Could you place me on the path to an > install floppy that would work? Can I build 3.0 over ftp? This isn't enough information. There are probably 20 chips in the Adaptec AIC78?? family. Anything below 789x should be fine; the 7895 requires CAM. If the 3com card is the 905B you're sunk, but the straight 905 works fine. > Asus P2B-LS board with onboard Adaptec 2940U controller (on boot I see > a message about the 7890 BIOS.) Hm, Asus's page doesn't list a P2B-LS, there's an L and an S but no LS. The P2B-S says it's a 7890, which requires CAM. A CAM boot floppy and instructions should be here: http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message