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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!sgigate.sgi.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.nap.net!usenet From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@nap.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help with AHA-2940 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:11:58 -0500 Organization: nap.net Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31E3D64E.41C67EA6@nap.net> References: <31DD3662.41C67EA6@nap.net> <4rjt2s$53r@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <Du4pu4.HuH@alisa.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bluebill.nap.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; BSD/OS 2.0 i386) John J. Rushford wrote: > > David Malone (dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) wrote: > : "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@nap.net> writes: > > : >If anyone has gotten an AHA-2940 working with FreeBSD please > : >tell me how. > > : We plugged it in and away it went ! We did format the disk as > : a dos disk first - I dunno if that helped. > > : David. > > Mine, AHA-2940, worked fine right out of the box. Never had DOS on any of the etc ... It looks like some chipsets do not work well. I took the problemic cards out of a system with an ALI chipset w/Award BIOS and put them in a Triton chipset board w/Award BIOS and it worked like a champ. -- /*Joseph T. Klein * When in doubt, use brute force. * NAP.NET, LLC * * phone +1 414 747-8747 * -- Ken Thompson * http://www.nap.net */