Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU and NetBSD 1.2
To: None <astrand@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/04/1996 01:55:07
>Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:51:48 -0700
>From: Allan Strand <astrand@evolution.nmsu.edu>

>  vendor 0x9004 product 0x6178 (class mass storage, subclass SCSI,
>  revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 10 function 0 not configured

>After looking in the archives, I noticed that other people in the past
>have seen similar situations using the 2940 and NetBSD 1.1.  The
>typical response that they received was, "use 1.2 it has support for
>the adaptec 2940." 

1.2 lacks support for the particular variant of the 2940 that you
have.  However, it is supported in -current; at least, it's listed in
/usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs.

>Is there some obvious fix for this situation?  I'm slightly suspicious
>because I have the 2940AU which adaptec has recently introduced,
>rather than the 2940 which adaptec customer service claims has been
>discontinued in the last month.  Could this difference be the root of
>the problem?

You need a -current kernel.
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