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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5/EISA/AHA1740 not finding drives
Date: 28 Nov 1996 22:24:11 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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"J.C. Archambeau" <jca@accessnv.com> wrote:

> Well, you need to submit a problem report.  It is quite possible that
> the 174x driver was broken during the upgrade process.  One harsh reality
> with EISA systems is that there is little support for EISA cards and what
> little support may end up getting broken during a kernel upgrade.

EISA systems are not broken per se.  Our scratch machine at work is a
PCI/EISA machine with an AHA2742 in it, and it has been running all
kinds of FreeBSD systems on it, up and including 2.2-ALPHA.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)