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