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From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2740 controller
Date: 9 Jun 1994 04:02:29 GMT
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Thad Phetteplace x4461 (tdphette@mke.ab.com) wrote:
: I have an Adaptec 2740 SCSI controller I would like to put in my
: FreeBSD system, but I see that 2740 is not listed in the supported
: hardware list.  Is there a 2740 driver?  If not, can I make the card
: act like a 1740 and *spoof* the system?

No, there are rumors around, that people are working on it, but
in fact there is no support for this controller.

The reason is that adaptec doesn't offer information how to programm
the controller ... Same story as Diamond cards concerning XFree86 :(

	Andreas ///

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