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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: adaptec 154X support
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> can someone confirm or deny the following.
> 
> have a fine ole dx2/66 board with adaptec 1542B (older style with 
> jumpers) - worked flawlessly with bsdi for 2 years - now moving to 
> freebsd and find that during 2.1 install (usually while copying floppy 
> resident files) system either hangs or panics (virt screen 2 messages 
> about scsi bus locked). 
> 
> so i try a newer card - 1542 C/CF series - works great.
> 
> 
> does freebsd support the older adaptec 154X A/B? in my caseseems the 
> answer is no.


The answer is most *positively* yes.  I've been running on a 1542B since
before FreeBSD came into existance, and still run it w/out problems.



Nate