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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( 
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Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 09:50:05 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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
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