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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Adaptec 274X SCSI adapter Date: 27 Sep 1993 16:12:39 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 32 Message-ID: <2873dn$5ra@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <pgb1.749104573@ra.msstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <pgb1.749104573@ra.msstate.edu>, Patrick Bridges <pgb1@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote: > >I see this adapter mentioned nowhere in the docs. I know someone >who just purchased one, and On boot of FreeBSD, it claims that the >board does not respond to a uha_init... I realize the board may >not be supported at all, but... >Can it operate as a 1742, or can XXXBSD drive it directly, >or am I SOL? You are SOL (in more ways than one). The 274X is a different beast than all other Adaptec controllers, and we can't provide a source driver for it. Also, (this is unsubstantiated), there are rumors of hardware problems with this card. Postings in comp.sys.scsi suggest that this card is slower than the 174X series, cause data corruption, and in general is a bad thing. A friend of mine ran one under OS/2 2.1, and was getting lockups and disk problems constantly. We are in the process of replacing it with a 174X series card because of the problems I've read about in the other newsgroups. (And besides, the 174X has drivers for every OS known to man :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me