Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 08:54:48 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: David LaPorte <david_laporte@harvard.edu> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 3.4 with a AIC-7899 Message-ID: <20000207085448.A21613@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <LPBBKOBLDKJIOOLEIEHHCEAHEKAA.david_laporte@harvard.edu>; from david_laporte@harvard.edu on Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 09:59:03AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002070801150.89856-100000@teligent.se> <LPBBKOBLDKJIOOLEIEHHCEAHEKAA.david_laporte@harvard.edu>
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 09:59:03 -0500, David LaPorte wrote: > I'm having some difficulty installing FreeBSD 3.4 on a Dell Precision 420. > The motherboard has an on-board AIC7899 Ultra 160 controller that does not > get recognized. I tried a quick Mandrake 7.0 install, and it was recognized > as a AIC-7899 Ultra 160m. The FreeBSD HCL lists AIC-789X, so I assumed it'd > be supported. > > Any thoughts on how to get this to work? 3.4 supported all the 789x chips that were out at the time. :) Anyway, 3.4 doesn't support the Ultra160 chips. -current does, and I'm sure Justin will be porting the changes back to -stable before too long. If you want to install now, grab a 4.0-current snapshot from: ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/ and install it. Right now, the Ultra160 chips only run at Ultra2 speed, but that should be fixed before too long as well. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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