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From: bouyer@ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Pentium Setup for netbsd
Date: 18 Dec 1994 12:32:46 GMT
Organization: Techniques Avancees, Paris
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In article <3d07g9$ce5@phoenix.vssi.trw.com>, b_kondalski@zeus.vssi.trw.com (Brian J. Kondalski) writes:
> I am looking into putting some money into my current PC.  I was looking
> to make a decent netbsd system and was wondering what people would
> recommend for a SCSI disk controller (I would prefer a PCI card, but a
> VLB card would be ok) and graphic card (also would prefer PCI).  Anyone
> out there have some experiences in this area?

I have a NCR pci scsi adapter, and a et4000w32 based pci graphic card on my 
pentium running NetBSD 1.0, i don't have any problems.
We have also some 486 whith a bustek 442 scsi adapter (vlb). It is fast, but
seems to have problems with old scsi-1 devices.

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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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