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From: "M.Sapsed" <m.sapsed@bangor.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] Multiple 2940's in 2.1.0
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 10:57:03 +0100
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> pmorin@qbc.clic.net (Patrick A. Morin) wrote:
> 
> > I am using 2 2940 in one server right now, I am very happy with the
> > results. You should not need to reconfigure the kernel, it should
> > auto-detect it.
> 
> 2.1R required the additional ``controller ahc1'' line in the config
> file.  I think this is no longer necessary in -current, but i'm not
> sure.
> 
> Two 2940's are also working fine in my machine at work, and that's
> where the CD-R support for FreeBSD has been developed. :)

Are there are three very happy 2940's in my 18 drive cd-rom server...
(after adding an ahc2 line to the kernel.)

Martin

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