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From: lam@awod.com (Ken Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [ask] Is AH 7880 SCSI supported?
Date: 6 Jul 1996 21:13:24 GMT
Organization: Integrated Technical Systems
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In article <4rlvt6$1ec@colias.tutics.tut.ac.jp>, sarif@protenor.dsl.tutics.tut.ac.jp. says...
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>   I'm going to buy a new motherboard in a next few days, and I'm
>planning to run FreeBSD on it.
>   The motherboard is Giga-Byte GA-586DX. It has Ultra Wide Adaptec
>7880 SCSI Controller on board. The problem is that I've been looking
>the Hardware Spec, in 2.1.0-RELEASE ans 2.2-960323-SNAP and cannot
>find this Adaptec 7880 on the list.
>   Is this SCSI Controller suported? Anyone has a running system with
>it?

I haven't used a Giga-Byte board before, but the 7880 chipset is
supported with 2.1R (I have the 2940U and have installed 2.1 on it).
BTW, get CURRENT or STABLE for more stable SCSI support vs RELEASE.

the SNAP you mention has VM problems (if I recall correctly).

I have installed 2.1 on a UW as well.  No problems.

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