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From: dnguyen <dnguyen@rcp6.elan.af.mil>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ADAPTEC PCI 2940  CONTROLLER --- HELP!!!!
Date: 6 Jan 1996 00:23:01 GMT
Organization: Robins AFB, GA
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The Notorious B.S.D. (The Notorious B.S.D.) wrote:
>
>a question like this was asked recently in one of the NT discussion
>groups; since NT suddenly refused to acknowledge the existance of the
>2940.
>
>apparantly Adaptec (as i remember) updated the 2940's bios, or
>something, and that screwed up NT's auto-detection. there was a way to
>identify whether you had one of these new cards, but you'll have to go
>(holding your nose) into the NT discussion areas to find this out.
>
>maybe this is what's going on with your board.

First of all, I would like to thanks everyone for replying to my request.
After couple days of toying around, I have come to conclusion that the
problem is with the Adaptec "New Version" of BIOS. How did I arrive to this
conclusion? 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 ...

Derrick