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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD/FreeBSD with Future Domain TMC-1680 SCSI Card?
Date: 4 Feb 1994 01:21:43 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <2ir2mq$oq5@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>,
Scott Larsen <larsen@OES.ORST.EDU> wrote:
>Looking through the FreeBSD installation notes it looks like the Future Domain
>TMC-1680 SCSI adapters are not supported.
>
>Any idea if this will ever happen?  Is this support in the latest 386BSD,
>but not yet in the FreeBSD distribution?

No, and not until someone writes a driver for it, since our resident SCSI
expert is snowed under at work and will not have time to write a driver for
it.  (Besides, he'd need hardware and programming docs to do it as well)



Nate
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