Adaptec bought future domain and relabeled some of their hardware.
I think the 2920 is equivalent to the Future domain 16XX/PCI/SCSI2Go cards.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Graff [mailto:explorer@flame.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 1:55 PM
To: Josh Hope
Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2920 SCSI Cards...


Josh Hope <otaku@unixborg.net> writes:

> So I received an Adaptec AHA-2920 card. After making the purchase, I
> noticed that it was *not* on the supported hardware list. When booting off
> of the start-up disk (which I have to do because the root partition is on
> a IDE drive which is master on my secondary IDE chain), I can't access the
> drive like I normally would with a "boot hd2a:netbsd" command. When doing
> this command, the SCSI drive accesses, but I get an error. So I tried
> hd3a, but this gives an Input/Output error.

Isn't the 2920 the non-bootable version of the 2940?

> In the dmesg, I think I see my SCSI card loading as a "Future
> Domain...(SCSI mass storage system)" on pci1, after this though it reports
> "not configured" (it reports the same for my VGA card, though).

Strange...  It should report adaptec, but the "not configured" really
means "no driver found" or "no special configuration required"
depending on the card.

--Michael