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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!willis.cis.uab.edu!news.lsu.edu!phwave.phys.lsu.edu!ELCAN From: elcan@phwave.phys.lsu.edu (philip elcan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ALWAYS AL3000 PCI SCSI controller Date: 21 Nov 1995 16:40:28 GMT Organization: LSU Experimental Relativity Group Lines: 18 Message-ID: <48svds$33qr@te6000.otc.lsu.edu> Reply-To: elcan@phwave.phys.lsu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: phwave.phys.lsu.edu I just recently purchased a new PC. I bought a SCSI controller and disk. I asked for an NCR PCI controller, but ended up with an ALWAYS AL-3000 which has an AMD pcscsi chip in it. The salesman said that it had the same spec's as the NCR card, and I made the mistake of thinking that he knew what he was talking about and thought maybe it actually had an NCR chip on it. I see where thinking got me, so now I'm going to ask you to do some thinking for me, please. Now, i'm trying to run FreeBSD. Here's where I stand... When I boot off of the boot.flp the probe finds it, but says: pci0:8: AMD, device=0x2020, class=storage (scsi) [no driver assigned] I assumed based on this and the list of supported scsi adapters, that it's not supported, eh? :) Do I have any options besides getting a new scsi card? Thanks, Philip