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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:31:35 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-(
Message-ID:  <199603091231.NAA26195@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603080316.TAA02977@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 7, 96 07:16:52 pm

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As Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> The 2842VLB SCSI card, a non PnP device, sticks its identifier in
> the EISA slot address space for identification.  FreeBSD currently
> always looks for these IDs in the EISA slot address space even if
> the EISA motherboard ID at 0x0C80 is not found so that it can detect
> these cards.

I generally agree with your argumentation.

One very minor addendum: while the LINT file mentions that the 284X
probes as an EISA card, there should perhaps be a warning in the
GENERIC config file, telling: ``Don't remove the eisa0 controller if
you're using an Adaptec 284X VLB controller.''

-- 
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. ;-)



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