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From: uweg@gfsfs.gfs-hl.de (Uwe Gruentjes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec AIC7850
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:23:39 GMT
Organization: DSW Management GmbH
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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>uweg@gfsfs.gfs-hl.de (Uwe Gruentjes) wrote:

>> suhman@zelax.zgrad.su (Sergey Suhman) suggested by eMail that 2.1R
>> doesn't support this controller. He told me to try 2.2-960501-SNAP ...

>Ah, yes, i remember that some of the newer controllers aren't
>supported by stock 2.1R.  When in doubt, it's perhaps the best to ask
>the maintainer of the ahc driver.  You should also not that he
>back-ported his changes from -current to -stable, means that you can
>use them even in a ``less development-like'' system.

Meanwhile I managed to install 2.2-960501-SNAP without problems. In
the process I noticed that 2.2-SNAP probes for PCI devices before it
looks for ISA devices, while 2.1R does look for ISA devices first.
Maybe it has something to do with this order of bus probing.

I think I will have to live with 2.2-SNAP until 2.2R becomes available
(or even longer; remember, we're upgrading from the last 4.3 based and
_very_ stable release). With the 2.1 compatibility package I can run
most 2.1 applications. I don't know yet if 2.2-SNAP is buggy, but I
think we'll find out pretty soon.

Thanks to all for your help and for one of the best OS available.

Uwe

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