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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [ask] Is AH 7880 SCSI supported?
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 21:10:51 -0500
Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine
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Ken Lam wrote:
> 
> In article <4rlvt6$1ec@colias.tutics.tut.ac.jp>, sarif@protenor.dsl.tutics.tut.ac.jp. says...
> >
> >
> >   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).
> 
EEEK!!!  if you are running a -current snapshot, either upgrade
your kernel to the latest -current, or if you are running a
-stable snapshot, get the newest -stable kernel.  Major bugfixes
have been applied recently!!!

John