> Now, I have problems installing FreeBSD on a Mitac 486DX33 PC with EISA bus.
> It has EISA Adaptec 1740 SCSI host adapter and 2 SCSI hard disks. Under DOS,
> everything worked fine. I decided to get rid of DOS and install FreeBSD. I
> deleted all patitions on the disks using fdisk and started installation.
> When starting the computer, I get a message indicating that both HDs are
> detected:
>
> SCSI ID0 Installed
> SCSI ID1 Installed
>
> however, FreeBSD finds only the adapter but not the disks. I tried both
>From which manufacturer are the disks ? I have only seen one problem
so far with the 1742. It seems to have troubles under FreeBSD if the
disks are slow speed ( <= 5Mb sync) disks. Under DOS the speed you
set up with the EISA config are honored. But i suspect the driver
under FreeBSD doesn't care about that.
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