From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 13:31:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA01514 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:31:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebsd.first.gmd.de (freebsd.first.gmd.de [192.35.153.200]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA01500 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:31:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ats@localhost) by freebsd.first.gmd.de (8.7.3/8.6.12) id XAA12383; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:25:51 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199602212225.XAA12383@freebsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Hardware Configuration To: wechin@acs.bu.edu (William Chin) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:25:50 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "William Chin" at Feb 21, 96 01:45:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I was hoping to install FreeBSD 2.1 (Jan 96) on my computer > but have a question about my hardware configuration. I have a > > HP Vectra 5/90c > PCI Bus > AMD PCI Bus SCSI controller (AMD 79c974) > > Does this mean that I am not able to install FreeBSD with my > current hardware, or is my controller similar to one on the list > and I just have to correctly assigne it. One previous suggestion > was to purchase a new PCI SCSI controller. This is in the moment really an unsupported controller and you can't run with it. Your only chance in the moment is to get one of the supported pci scsi controllers and use them. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.10 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe