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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: 11 Jun 1994 17:50:33 +0200
Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site
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In article <2tbnuj$elc@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
Thomas Heiling <tom@wpzd07.pzlc.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:

For FreeBSD,  try to have a  look  at the  FAQ for  -current (and 1.1.5) in
/usr/src/contrib/FAQ.

>*BSD:
>        Architecture: ISA or EISA bus. MCA (mostly true blue PS/2's) 
>        does not work. Local busses (VLB and PCI) not. ( Is this true ?

VLB and PCI work.

>
>	SCSI hard disk controllers:
>	Adaptec 154x *, Adaptec 174x, Buslogic 545S, Bustek 742(EISA)
>	DTC 3290 in 1542 emulation mode *, Ultrastor 14f and 34f

Add the BT-747S (EISA), I'm running one. Great card.

>	SMC/WD 8003, 8013 and equivalents ( including SMC Elite )
>	Novell NE1000,NE2000,NE2100 
>	3com 3c503
>	ISOLAN ISOlink

Add the 3c501 and 3c509 (maybe also the  3c579 EISA). SMC Ultra should work
too.

>	Tape Drives:
>	QIC-02 format tape drives
>	most SCSI tape/DAT drives on a supported SCSI controller

Add floppy tape based like Colorado QIC-40/80.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT                                           roberto@hsc.fr.net
Hervé Schauer Consultants                Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
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