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Subject: Re: adaptec 154X support
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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 18:59:24 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <31E564ED.5E13@oester.com> from "G.R.Gircys" at Jul 11, 96 01:32:45 pm
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I am typing this on a system that has been running 2.1 since a few
days after its release.  No hangs, no panics, running lots of mail
and news 24 hours a day.

Asus PVI-486AP4, DX2-66, 2 IDE disks, and a 1542B controlling a
floppy, 2 SCSI disks and an Archive 2150s tape drive.

G.R.Gircys wrote:

> 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.
> 
> thnx,
> 
> rich