From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 19 06:50:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA21650 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 06:50:23 -0800 Received: from copper.cmp.com (copper.cmp.com [198.80.26.247]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA21644 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 06:50:21 -0800 Received: from [198.80.26.5] by copper.cmp.com with SMTP (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA12099; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 09:50:11 -0500 Received: by mailgate.cmp.com with Microsoft Mail id <2F1EA629@mailgate.cmp.com>; Thu, 19 Jan 95 09:49:29 PST From: Plyaskin Sergey To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: FreeBSD/Adaptec 1740 problem Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 09:49:00 PST Message-Id: <2F1EA629@mailgate.cmp.com> Encoding: 32 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been running FreeBSD 2.0 on a Gateway 2000 486SX25 ISA machine with no problems for about 2 months. It has an Adaptec 1542CF SCSI host adapter and one external 1Gb SCSI HD. Now, I have problems installing FreeBSD on a Mitac 486DX33 PC with EISA bus. It has EISA Adaptec 1740 SCSI host adapter and 2 SCSI hard disks. Under DOS, everything worked fine. I decided to get rid of DOS and install FreeBSD. I deleted all patitions on the disks using fdisk and started installation. When starting the computer, I get a message indicating that both HDs are detected: SCSI ID0 Installed SCSI ID1 Installed however, FreeBSD finds only the adapter but not the disks. I tried both FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE and FreeBSD 2.0-950112SNAP. I also tried to set the adapter to both standard and enhanced mode (in standard mode it's detected as 1540.) I borrowed an Adaptec 1540 (ISA) from my friend, and the disks were detected by FreeBSD. Is that the problem with that particular 1740 adapter or EISA adapters in general or I do something wrong? I'm confused and would appreciate any help/hints. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Serge Plyaskin splyaski@cmp.com Advanced Technology Center 516-562-5951 CMP Publications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------