From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 00:29:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02426 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 00:29:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA02420 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 00:29:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yAW1A-0001Yh-00; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:28:40 +0200 Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD on Compaq ProSignia (ncr53c710 onboard SCSI controller) In-Reply-To: <199803042022.PAA11462@rome.ntr.net> from Norman at "Mar 4, 98 12:29:03 pm" To: doublem@ntr.net (Norman) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:28:40 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Johann Visagie Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Norman wrote: > > Compaq ProSignia 486 DX/2 66 manufactured in April/1993 with an onboard > ncr53c710 SCSI controller card for hard drives only. Populated with a > Seagate Barracuda (Narrow) and an HP drive (Barracuda partitioned with DOS > (FAT) and majority Windows NT Workstation (NTFS)). > > An Adaptec AHA-1740 populated with a WangDAT Model 3100 tape drive and a > Panasonic (MATSHITA) CD-ROM (CR-508). > > Has anyone successful installed FreeBSD with this configuration (minus the > population specific, but with the two SCSI controller specifics)? Hmmm. FWIW, I installed 2.2.1-R on a Prosignia (300, I think it was. A P100 or P120, I think.) back in early '96. The first problem I ran into was that the generic kernel on the install floppy didn't have support for the NCR SCSI controller compiled in. So I borrowed some generic Adaptec (can't remember which) from a friend and installed from there. I then recompiled a kernel with ncr0 and, as I remember, it faithfully picked up both SCSI host adapters. Of course, I then removed the Adaptec and switched my devices to the on-board controller, so I never actually ran both in parallel. The next issue was the fact that the Compaq had a memory gap option, and FreeBSD only recognised the first 16M even when I disabled the gap using Compaq's own DOS-based utilities. All I had to do was set MAXMEM explicitly. > Any assistance would be appreciated. I would like to devote drive1 (HP Are you experiencing any specific problems? (Aside: That particular server I set up is still running, though not under my control for well over a year and now upgraded to 2.2.5-R, doing duty as mail, DNS, etc. server for a large-ish Microsoft Solution Provider. I'm quite proud of it... ;-) -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message