Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:33:26 -0500 From: "Doug Skinner" <skinnerd@flash.net> To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: INSTALLING ON SCSI DRIVES Message-ID: <199905212137.QAA24193@ares.flash.net>
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My computer has an Always Technologies IN-2000 SCSI card. I am trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 on to it but am unable to do so because the installation cannot find my drives. The drives are detected during boot up and when I boot to DOS I can access them. I suspect the reason the FreeBSD installation program cannot see them is because the IN-2000 driver is not part of the boot kernel. My first question is: is one of the SCSI devices that are currently part of the boot kernel equivalent to the Always Technologies IN-2000 device. If so, which one? My impression is that this card was once fairly popular. However the company has gone out of business and they were bought out by a retail outfit that provides absolutely no support for the Always Technologies cards. My second question is: I have located a LINUX driver for the IN-2000. Will it work under FreeBSD 3.1? While I have been working with UNIX type systems for the past year or so, I have not yet gotten into recompiling the kernel. I have the LINUX driver source code. Can you point me to some good resources on the web (or elsewhere) that tell me in a lot of detail how to make a >bootable< kernel with this driver compiled in? I would greatly appreciate sources that are oriented to those who are new to building kernels. Sincerely, Douglas Skinner Chicago, IL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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