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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 1995 12:37:55 +0300 (GMT+0300)
From:      Alex Kluev <alex@tubank.msk.su>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.90.951223123644.7459A-100000@hobbit.tubank.msk.su>

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Subject: Adaptec 294x problem
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Organization: Tver Universal Bank, TeleCom Division.
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Hi!

I've got a weird problem. We have two Compaq boxes (OK, it wasn't my idea to
buy those so please no flames ;). One 486DX4/100 ISA/PCI, another Pentium 90
EISA/PCI. The Pentium one comes with integrated PCI SCSI compatible with
itself and a Netflex Ethernet, also compatible with itself. The 4/100 box
have an on-board PCI Cyrus Logic video board.

All of these may look very exiting, but also I have two AHA-2940 PCI SCSI
host adapter and some fast SCSI disks that I want to use for FreeBSD 2.1. The
problem is as follows :

When inserted in the 4/100 box, the 2940 is claiming that it detects the disks
and installs the bios. If the disk have a DOS partition, it will boot with
no problems, and show ~2Mb/s transfer rates. The same aplies to the P90 box
(if the on-board SCSI is switched off with ECU). But the FreeBSD 2.1'w floppy
kernel won't detect the adapter on both machines.


I took a look in the kernel code, but lacking PCI programming expirience, it's
a hell of a job to understand why it's not working. 

Could anybody help me out?

Thanks,
Alex Kluev

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