From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 22:59:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24531 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:59:27 -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 WAA24501 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:59:12 -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 WAA02926; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:59:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:59:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Richards cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940U2W controller 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 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