From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 13:56:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03358 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03257 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09879; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:55:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:54:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Greg Quinlan cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940*A*UW Does NOT Work? In-Reply-To: <000701bddf06$848be380$380051c2@Greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Greg Quinlan wrote: > Basically I need to know why the: > > Adaptec 3940UW - works > & > Adaptec 3940AUW - Does NOT work. > > The 3940UW Dual channel controller works fine. It is detected by > FreeBSD and runs happy, but something Adaptec have done with the > 3940AUW means that it is not detected and if you try and fool it by > installing first using the 3940UW then change to the 3940AUW it begins > to boot but can not mount the root file system, and PANICS. > > Does anyone know what the solution is? Ditch the A -- it's an el-cheapo version of the 3940, with a puny number of SCBs. The performance hit isn't worth the savings. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message