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From: Colin Jensen <cj@accom.com>
Subject: Re: ADAPTEC PCI 2940  CONTROLLER --- HELP!!!!
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dnguyen wrote:
> I borrowed a friend's 2940 that has the "old Version" BIOS and
> FreeBSD have no problem detecting all the SCSI devices.
> My next question is: Will the PCI 2940 with the newest BIOS work with
> FreeBSD 2.1? *Don't want to go through another process of downloading 

Yes, 2.1 handles the newer 2940 correctly.

It's also pretty easy to look at the 2.1 source and figure out what
change is required, and add the change back into 2.0.5 (you could
boot and recompile the kernel using your friend's 2940).  But that
would be work.