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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!uknet!demon!minnow.render.com!news!dfr From: dfr@herring.demon.co.uk (Doug Rabson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: SMC Elite Ultra on FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE Date: 5 Apr 94 10:31:43 Organization: RenderMorphics Ltd. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <DFR.94Apr5103143@minnow.render.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: minnow.render.com Has anyone got this card to work successfully under FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE? I bought the card (without knowing that it was an Ultra) because the docs seemed to suggest that all SMC Elite cards were supported. I managed to hack the driver until it recognised the card after staring painfully at some DOS packet driver source code but while the card appeared to work (more or less) it interfered with my SCSI disks causing them to write blocks in the wrong places. The short story is that my machine was toasted and I had to reinstall. I then looked at FreeBSD-current and found that the new ed driver claimed support for the Ultra. I installed the new driver and tried again. Again, it seemed to cause trouble for my SCSI system. I eventually gave up and I am now using a lowly 3c503 card. Has anyone else seen this kind of problem? Is it fixed in -1.1? -current? -- Doug Rabson, RenderMorphics Ltd. dfr@herring.demon.co.uk