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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple Adaptec 2742W's Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:04:35 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 Message-ID: <411e23$h1i@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <40uuch$m5e@newsreader.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <40uuch$m5e@newsreader.wustl.edu>, Matt Rosenberg <mar7@cec.wustl.edu> wrote: >Apparently 2.0.5 is not compatable with more than 1 Adaptec >2742W. I can add the second device line in the kernel We're running 3 of them on a 2.0.5 system, in fact (ftp.cdrom.com). This depends more heavily on which *motherboard* you're using, however. We found that with the Neptune chipset based board we had before, we were entirely unsuccessful and it was only later that we found out that the Neptune chipset has real problems with more than 2 bus masters and our ASUS P54NP4 didn't even cope that well with 2 boards, much less 3, anyway. Once we switched to a Triton based motherboard, that is the ASUS P54TP4, the 3 2940s dropped right in without so much as a ripple. This may or may not have anything to do with your particular problem, but just FYI.. Jordan