From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 30 19:21:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA23282 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA23276 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:21:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA10089; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:21:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephen Rose cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeff Smith Subject: Re: Diamond Fireport 40 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Stephen Rose wrote: > A friend of mine bought FreeBSD 2.2.2 for a pc that already has two ide > drives for MS operating systems. I've had good luck with ncr controllers, > so he bought a Diamond Fireport 40 scsi card and disk for FreeBSD. The > installation process doesn't seem to recognise the scsi card. Is there > some way to get the install process to accept this card? I've looked in > the archive and can't find the answer to this question, although there > seem to be people using this card successfully. Thanks. It may be that the Diamond is too different from the NCR 53c8xx series chips to be detectable. I wasn't aware that Diamond made a NCR-compatible SCSI controller tho. NCRs are also known as Symbios, the company that took over NCR's chip subdivision. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo