From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 05:31:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA18164 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 05:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bronco1.hastings.edu (bronco1.hastings.edu [192.195.111.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA18155 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 05:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bronco2.hastings.edu ([207.91.49.2]) by bronco1.hastings.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA00258 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:30:30 -0500 Received: by bronco2.hastings.edu with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BBC247.BC08A3D0@bronco2.hastings.edu>; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:40:03 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Mackin, Jim" To: "'freebsd-questions@freeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: How to get 2.1.5 to probe for ahc1 on the EISA bus? Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:40:02 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am in the same boat as Gary. I have an HP Netserver LC and was able to install 2.0.5 but had the same problem as Gary with 2.1.5. Unfortunately, I got busy and was not able to continue working on it. Any help would be appreciated! >Sorry if I got your hopes up, Gary.. > >>I'm trying to install 2.1.5 on an HP Netserver LC, which has >>an Adaptec 274X SCSI controller. (I need 2.1.5 because I want to >>use an Intel Etherexpress Pro100 network card.) The netserver's >>controller is on the EISA bus. >> >I>n 2.1.0, ahc1 and ahc0 are probed on the EISA bus, and so my >>scsi controller is found. They aren't probed there in 2.1.5, >>so my scsi controller isn't found and I've been made a sad human. >> >>I know the problem isn't a conflict because I disabled everything >>but the essentials and it still didn't find it. >> >>My theory is, as I said above, they need to be probed for on the >>EISA bus. (These controllers aren't listed in the "mass storage" >>list when I boot with -c.) >> >>I searched the archives and found one other reference to exactly >>this problem, but no solution appeared -- I emailed the person with >>the problem and he had given up. >> >>I'd appreciate any help solving this; we'd like to use this machine >>for our courses next semester. >> >>Thanks in advance, > >>gary >======================================================================== >==== >Gary Lewandowski lewan@xavier.xu.edu >http://xavier.xu.edu:8000/~lewan/ >Xavier University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science >======================================================================== >===== >