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Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 15:46:59 +0100
From: Tim Palmer <tpalmer@riverdale.edu>
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Good afternoon and thank you all for existing! I'm a FreeBSD (and 
Unix) newbie, but excitedbie. I have the 2.0.5 Walnutcreek dist. and am 
trying to install on my new computer, but the kernel can't find my hard 
drive. Details:
								Cyrix 6x86 P150+ on an MTI board with Triton II chipset, 32M RAM
								Adaptec 2940W running Seagate 32550 2G hard drive
								Adaptec 1542 running Pioneer ... CD-ROM and Colorado 2G QIC tape 
drive.
								#9 771 video.
								3Com Etherlink III PCI 10t/102 NIC

							I've seen in a couple of readmes that 2.0.5 supports both the 
Adaptec 2949 and the 3Com card, but my initial attempt failed - probing 
ahc1 and zp0 both returned 0x0. There appears to be no ahc0 in my 
kernel. The 1542 responded. So, I have two questions: 
							Do I need 2.1
							Are there any problems with using these two SCSI cards?													

		Thank you very much for your time!
		Tim Palmer
		tpalmer@riverdale.edu