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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:37:19 +0100
From:      HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>
To:        "Photon.Graphics@Bigfoot.com" <photon.graphics@bigfoot.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Two install problems with 3.0
Message-ID:  <369B500F.AF1E03A7@telspace.alcatel.fr>
References:  <369B4A42.A83690E8@bigfoot.com>

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Quoting from the 3.0 Release notes (which you SHOULD have read before
asking here) :


2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
386sx is not recommended).  Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
also provided.

What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
FreeBSD.  Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
received confirmation of this.


2.1. Disk Controllers
---------------------
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
IDE
ATA

Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
Adaptec 274X/284X/2920/2940/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series
EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers.
Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers.


I don't see your Adaptec AHA-1520 in the supported, so this may explains
why you don't see it in the boot messages.

	TfH

You may want to stick with 2.2-Stable if your board is supported there.



"Photon.Graphics@Bigfoot.com" wrote:
> 
> Sorry for posting this again but I didn't get an answer....
> 
> I am trying to install version 3.0 on my 486DX4/100 box and am
> experiencing two of problems:
> 
> 1) The uncompressing of the kernel (from a floppy boot of the install
> program) seems to take a very long time (like minutes).
> 
> 2) The SCSI driver for my card (Adaptec AHA-1520) doesn't seem to
> appear on either the boot probing nor the full-screen kernel
> configuration. On previous versions of FreeBSD device aic0 appeared.
> With version 3.0, device aic0 seems to be missing.
> This problem i serious because both my source (CD-ROM) and destination
> hard disk are on the SCSI device that the install program can't see.
> 
> Any clues as to what is going on here?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --
> Stephen M Brown
> Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan
> 
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