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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:08:44 -0800 ()
From: "Erik A. Pearson" <epearson@olac.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Randall Raemon <delta1@netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Adaptec 1542CP 
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With encouragement from you and others, I persisted and got the card to
work, but the secret is elusive and occurred after turning off ROM and
video shadowing in the system bios and a few other options on the 1542CP
that are DOS specific, and attemting the installation a few more times.
However, after installation the card is failing again! 

The CDROM drive stops and starts every 10 seconds or so when FreeBSD is
trying to access it.

Any further tips? Other than this, the installation was a dream and the
system is up and running smoothly.

System is:
  386-40, no math coprocessor
  8M RAM
  SVGA
  IDE HD (300M)
  Adaptec 1542CP
  MediaVision MV500 CDROM (2x)
  Logitech serial mouse
  NE1000 NIC
  

On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Randall Raemon wrote:

> In message <Pine.WNT.3.95.961104085846.-394021A-100000@ep.olac.Berkeley.EDU> 
> "Erik A. Pearson" writes 
> 
> > I am hoping to get FreeBSD working with an Adaptec 1542CP SCSI card, but
> > it doesn't seem to be working, and I've now been informed that FreeBSD
> > 2.1.5 does not support the 5142CP, but that later fixes may address this
> > issue. Could you provide some guidance please?
> 
> I have several 1542CP boards installed in various machines. They work
> fine. However, I have disabled the plug-and-play feature, so the
> boards work like 1542CF boards. On the board, flip sw1 to the "On" 
> position to disable the PnP stuff.
> 
> --
> Randall Raemon
> delta1@netcom.com
>