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From: lam@awod.com (Ken Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: Adaptec 2940 UW
Date: 18 Jun 1996 18:58:14 GMT
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In article <Pine.3.91.960618004818.5013A-100000@fog.cs.odu.edu>, bowden@cs.odu.edu stated =>
>
>On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Gunnar Pruessner wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to use an adaptec 2940 UW (Ultra Wide SCSI) 
>> Controller with FreeBSD?
>
>I have them in all my serious servers (well, the ones that only need a 
>single scsi bus anyway), and they work beautifully with freebsd 2.1.0 and 
>later.

As I'm sure Justin would say, you will probably want to move to -stable,
b/c the 2940 support is more stable, handles the U[W] better, supports
tagged queuing......

I have the U model running -current and have run the SNAPs with great
success as well.

-k