Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:04:44 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: splyaski@cmp.com (Plyaskin Sergey) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Adaptec 1740 problem Message-ID: <199501191904.UAA28654@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <2F1EA629@mailgate.cmp.com> from "Plyaskin Sergey" at Jan 19, 95 09:49:00 am
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> Now, I have problems installing FreeBSD on a Mitac 486DX33 PC with EISA bus. > It has EISA Adaptec 1740 SCSI host adapter and 2 SCSI hard disks. Under DOS, > everything worked fine. I decided to get rid of DOS and install FreeBSD. I > deleted all patitions on the disks using fdisk and started installation. > When starting the computer, I get a message indicating that both HDs are > detected: > > SCSI ID0 Installed > SCSI ID1 Installed > > however, FreeBSD finds only the adapter but not the disks. I tried both >From which manufacturer are the disks ? I have only seen one problem so far with the 1742. It seems to have troubles under FreeBSD if the disks are slow speed ( <= 5Mb sync) disks. Under DOS the speed you set up with the EISA config are honored. But i suspect the driver under FreeBSD doesn't care about that. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe
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