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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!demos!hobbit.tubank.msk.su!tubank.msk.su!alex From: alex@tubank.msk.su (Alex Kluev) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Adaptec AHA-2940 and 2.1 problem Date: 22 Dec 1995 21:00:17 GMT Organization: Tver Universal Bank, TeleCom Division. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4bf691$j2t@hobbit.tubank.msk.su> NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbit.tubank.msk.su Keywords: adaptec, freebsd X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi! I've got a weird problem. We have two Compaq boxes (OK, it wasn't my idea to buy those so please no flames ;). One 486DX4/100 ISA/PCI, another Pentium 90 EISA/PCI. The Pentium one comes with integrated PCI SCSI compatible with itself and a Netflex Ethernet, also compatible with itself. The 4/100 box have an on-board PCI Cyrus Logic video board. All of these may look very exiting, but also I have two AHA-2940 PCI SCSI host adapter and some fast SCSI disks that I want to use for FreeBSD 2.1. The problem is as follows : When inserted in the 4/100 box, the 2940 is claiming that it detects the disks and installs the bios. If the disk have a DOS partition, it will boot with no problems, and show ~2Mb/s transfer rates. The same aplies to the P90 box (if the on-board SCSI is switched off with ECU). But the FreeBSD 2.1'w floppy kernel won't detect the adapter on both machines. I took a look in the kernel code, but lacking PCI programming expirience, it's a hell of a job to understand why it's not working. Could anybody help me out? Thanks, Alex Kluev ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Alex Kluev ..."The life is a short warm moment, + + Internet: alex@tubank.msk.su And the death is a long cold rest..."+ + Phone: +7 (095) 330-1080 Pink Floyd "Obscured by clouds" + + Fax: +7 (095) 330-6793 + + PGP Key fingerprint = 2E 46 74 FB D1 B4 E4 63 D3 9D A1 16 2B F0 F3 6B + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Alex Kluev ..."The life is a short warm moment, + + Internet: alex@tubank.msk.su And the death is a long cold rest..."+ + Phone: +7 (095) 330-1080 Pink Floyd "Obscured by clouds" + + Fax: +7 (095) 330-6793 + + PGP Key fingerprint = 2E 46 74 FB D1 B4 E4 63 D3 9D A1 16 2B F0 F3 6B + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------