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Date:      Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:59:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 2940U2W controller
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615225820.2150A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980613193132.6531A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca>

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On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Michael Richards wrote:

> Hi peoples!
> 
> Question of the day... Has anyone ever installed FreeBSD with an Adaptec
> 2940U2W controller? I am planning to do an install now that I have a
> relatively static hardware configuration. I wanted to install 3.0-SNAP.
> 
> I tried booting with the boot floppy, but after the config section, I get
> a neat little blinking cursor on the top corner of the screen. No panic,
> just an old DOS style lockup...

Yes, but it requires a special boot floppy since the U2W isn't supported
in the default system.  You need to run -CURRENT with the CAM patches.  A
CAMified boot floppy can be found at:

http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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