Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:21:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Rose <rose@dml.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeff Smith <joedec@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: Diamond Fireport 40 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970730191855.10060C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729165106.12458A-100000@locus.dml.com>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Stephen Rose wrote: > A friend of mine bought FreeBSD 2.2.2 for a pc that already has two ide > drives for MS operating systems. I've had good luck with ncr controllers, > so he bought a Diamond Fireport 40 scsi card and disk for FreeBSD. The > installation process doesn't seem to recognise the scsi card. Is there > some way to get the install process to accept this card? I've looked in > the archive and can't find the answer to this question, although there > seem to be people using this card successfully. Thanks. It may be that the Diamond is too different from the NCR 53c8xx series chips to be detectable. I wasn't aware that Diamond made a NCR-compatible SCSI controller tho. NCRs are also known as Symbios, the company that took over NCR's chip subdivision. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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