Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:59:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940U2W controller Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615225820.2150A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980613193132.6531A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca>
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On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Michael Richards wrote: > Hi peoples! > > Question of the day... Has anyone ever installed FreeBSD with an Adaptec > 2940U2W controller? I am planning to do an install now that I have a > relatively static hardware configuration. I wanted to install 3.0-SNAP. > > I tried booting with the boot floppy, but after the config section, I get > a neat little blinking cursor on the top corner of the screen. No panic, > just an old DOS style lockup... Yes, but it requires a special boot floppy since the U2W isn't supported in the default system. You need to run -CURRENT with the CAM patches. A CAMified boot floppy can be found at: 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
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