On Thu, 07 Mar 1996 20:36:30 +0100 
 Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@zappa.unna.ping.de> wrote:

 > I eventually managed to take some time and build a new kernel for my i486 
 > Gigabyte EISA Board.
 > As it turns out, the kernel found the adaptec (1742) and then silently 
 > rebooted...
 > Known Problem, or should I investigate further?

Weird...mine Just Worked:

[ . . . ]
mainbus0 (root)
eisa0 at mainbus0
ahb0 at eisa0 slot 1 irq 11: Adaptec AHA-1742A
scsibus0 at ahb0
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, PD1225S, 3142> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1169MB, 2448 cyl, 14 head, 69 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <QUANTUM, PD1225S, 3142> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 1169MB, 2448 cyl, 14 head, 69 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, MK438FB, 5157> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd2: 859MB, 1980 cyl, 11 head, 80 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd3 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, MK438FB, 5157> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd3: 859MB, 1980 cyl, 11 head, 80 sec, 512 bytes/sec
isa0 at mainbus0
[ . . . ]

Might want to investigate further...

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