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From: z056716@uprc.com (LaCoursiere J. D. (Jeff))
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Q on FreeBSD and SoundBlaster-SCSI
Date: 3 Nov 1994 22:33:58 GMT
Organization: Union Pacific Resources Corp.
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Message-ID: <39bogm$jr0@clavin.uprc.com>
References: <38o84v$lrj@due.uninett.no>
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In article lrj@due.uninett.no, tl@neptun.cmr.no (Tom Lislegaard) writes:
>I've got a good offer on one of the Creative Labs' bundles that includes a
>SoundBlaster-16 SCSI asp and the NEC 3Xi cdplayer.
>Hope someone can answer a few of my questions regarding SB/FreeBSD-1.5.1
>
>I know this scsi card is not supported by FreeBSD at the moment, but
>how about the future. Anybody working on this ?
>
From what I understand, the SCSI portion of the soundblaster is Adaptec
1542 compatible, so you ought to be able to use it. I considered going this
route a few months ago, but decided against it when I grilled the techs and
got them to admit that Adaptec would not release their BIOS support; this
meant to me that I would never be able to BOOT from a SCSI attached disk
even though I may have been able to MOUNT a disk after the system was up.
I suppose (if all my above assumptions are correct :->) that you could get
by booting from floppy; that would just piss me off, personally.
Jeff LaCoursiere
Network Admin
UPRC
Ft. Worth, TX
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