Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 16:32:29 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: tpalmer@riverdale.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 & 1542 Message-ID: <199605152332.QAA17710@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 15:46:59 BST." <31989CE3.2E2B@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 OK... > > 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 You might want it. There is a release due in the next couple of months though, if you are going to buy the CD. > Are there any problems with using these two SCSI cards? The 2940 has excellent support. Why don't you run your CD and your Colorado off the 2940 and dump the 1542? The only problem is the UltraWide -- I seem to remember that it doesn't quite probe properly with the driver in 2.1 (and definitely not 2.0.5 -- it wasn't out then!) You might consider going up to -stable until the release comes out. Hopefully someone will clarify on the 2940UW issue. For your Ethernet card, unless that Elink3 is a PCMCIA, zp0 is the wrong driver. You want ep0 instead. Other than that you should be okay. Good luck! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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