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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-hub.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-atl-21.sprintlink.net!news.rns.net!flint.sentex.net!usenet From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU support Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 07:19:58 GMT Organization: Sentex Communications Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3294003b.6311054@news.sentex.net> References: <01bbd323$f4620040$030120c1@shut.ticl.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p0.lithium.sentex.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 On Fri, 15 Nov 1996 18:39:20 GMT, "Peter Curran" <pcurran@ticl.co.uk> wrote: >Hi have just bought a new PCI SCSI vard - an adaptec 2940. Unfortunataly, >whilst it is found at boot time, a driver is not assigned. Further >investigation shows the card to be a 2940AU - and probably brand new! I >guess the ID string it returns is not recognised. Is there a patch/fix >available for 2.1.5R? I too had the same card... I dinked around with it for about a day, saw that the 2.1.6R was out, did an install of that, got it to recognize the controller and all seemed well... Well, not quite. The problem seemed to be that on powerup, the controller would detected my Fujutsu 4.3gig no problem. BUT, when I did a shutdown -r now, at boot up time, the card would not see the drive, no BIOS would be installed, and no dice on accessing the drive of course :-( Since I needed the machine to run fairly soon, I "downgraded" to a run of the mill 2940A and the card and drive seem to be working fine. (Adeptec support BTW didnt know the specific reason why this was happening, but I suspect it might be a general problem with these new cards... While waiting in the support queue there was a 'FAQ' type bulletin describing this problem and that the solution was to make sure that the drive target was 1 or 0 (which it always was)... The Adeptec guy also reccomended that I switch to a UW, and they in fact said they would exchange the card for me at no cost which I thought was a pretty decent offer. However, I could not afford to wait) ---Mike