Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 09:50:05 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( Message-ID: <199603091750.JAA12322@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Mar 1996 13:31:35 %2B0100." <199603091231.NAA26195@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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.'' I'll do that sometime this weekend. >-- >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. ;-) -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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