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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!gatekeeper.us.oracle.com!barrnet.net!Reason.cdrom.com!oz.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Q on FreeBSD and SoundBlaster-SCSI Date: 27 Oct 1994 14:22:22 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Oct27072222@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <38o84v$lrj@due.uninett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: tl@neptun.cmr.no's message of 27 Oct 1994 12:58:07 GMT In article <38o84v$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 ? I believe the SB/SCSI card will work in 2.0 - someone has been hacking out support for the AIC chip it uses. I don't have one of these myself, so I can't test it, but you may be able to try booting one of the very-soon-to-be-released 2.0 ALPHA boot floppies and see if you have any joy. Aside from SCSI, is the SoundBlaster-16 supported? Yes. I *do* have one of those! :-) I can move the cdrom to an existing adaptec 1542b. Can the two boards be set up to coexist ? Yes, they can indeed. Any comments on the NEC 3X ? My requirements are true SCSI-2, multisession photocd, XA, and at least double-speed. I've heard it's a reasonable drive, though I'd hook it to a real SCSI controller and not a sound card! Jordan