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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!radio-do.de!not-for-mail From: Frank Nobis <fn@Radio-do.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 BIOS version and FreeBSD Date: 20 May 1997 21:00:02 +0200 Organization: Radio and Friends Lines: 26 Sender: fn@trinity.radio-do.de Message-ID: <yge7mgu9dfx.fsf@trinity.radio-do.de> References: <337FE81C.D84@OntheNet.com.au> Reply-To: fno.no.spam@radio-do.de NNTP-Posting-Host: trinity.radio-do.de X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41306 >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> writes: Tony> I have a question regarding the BIOS version on the 2940 Tony> SCSI controller. I have a DEC Prioris with a 2940 SCSI ctlr Tony> at BIOS version 1.16 . I know that the latest version is Tony> 1.25 (or is that 1.23?). Tony> Does the BIOS version have any impact on FreeBSD. I imagine Tony> not since the O/S provides it's own drivers and doesn't (?) Tony> use the BIOS for anything other than loading the boot code. Tony> Also, the driver has code that it down-loads into the Tony> adapter. I think not. I had both BIOS version (1.16 and 1.23) running here. That makes no difference for me. One nice feature of the 1.23 version is, that one can boot from every possible ID/LUN combination. Nice thing(TM) if you have more than 2 drives or the board bios doesn't support boot from CDROM. Frank -- Frank Nobis Email: PGP AVAILABLE Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ 44139 Dortmund Powered by FreeBSD Fax: +49 231 7213816