Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 20:19:10 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: wjjr@sapphire (John J. Rushford), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 AU on 2.1.5 Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961205011910.009b64c8@sentex.net>
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At 05:43 PM 12/04/96 -0700, John J. Rushford wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've got a pentium equiped as follows and I cannot load FreeBSD 2.1.5,
>apparently the Adaptec 2940AU is not recognized so my CDROM is not
>found. I thought the 2940 was supported? Any ideas on what I can
>do. After downloading a new boot disk and driver update, I can
>successfully load Solaris 2.5.1 x86 but, I would prefer FreeBSD.
>Apparently even Solaris would not recognize the 2940AU. Should I
>find a plain vanilla 2940?
I had the same problems... The AU is different from the regular A... If you
can, find a plain A version... It works like a champ with 2.1.5. If you can
not get one, have a look at 2.1.6. It sort of works with this release,
however I had problems with it. On initial boot, it had no problems
recognizing the controller and attached drives. However, after a "shutdown
-r now" the card would not load the BIOS into the drives and FreeBSD would
not boot :-( It might just have been my Fujitsu 4Gig however.
Adaptec was fairly helpful. I called their 1-800#, went through the
problems with the tech guy and they said they would exchange the card for me
with a 2940UW which doest suffer from this problem. However, I could not
wait for it to come, so I sent back the 2940U to my distributor and got a
vanilla 2940A.
---Mike
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