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From: dlee@oak.ee.vt.edu (David Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: *BSD working on an Ultrastore 24F machine?
Date: 30 Oct 1994 20:52:23 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Dave Burgess (burgess@cynjut.infonet.net) wrote:
: Charles Hannum finished the work on getting the Ultrastore 24F working
: about six months ago, but AFAIK, no one has ever tested it under field
: conditions.

I guess I'll be the first field condition user!  What an honor!  (what
a load of work!)

: If you can get NetBSD 1.0 (the -current system) you should find the
: native support for your controller in there.  I'm sure that Charles
: would be glad to help you get the system working if it doesn't light on
: the first 30 or 40 tries :-)

Gee -- that sounds optimistic <grin>.  Thanks for the reply -- I'll start
my trials and tribulations with NetBSD then!

DCL

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