On 8 Apr 1999, Michael Graff wrote:

> 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?

Not the one I have. It's got an onboard BIOS and is advertised as
bootable...anyway, I wasn't planning on booting off of the SCSI drive...

> > 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
>