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From: Roy@AdeptSolutions.com (Roy Lovejoy)
Subject: Re: New Future Domain Support???
Organization: Adept Solutions
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 07:58:06 GMT
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In article <3cqpmu$9sg@Mercury.mcs.com>, chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher
Hilton) wrote:

> In article <MICHAELV.94Dec15151516@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
> Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
> >In article <Roy-1012940130150001@adept.cts.com> Roy@AdeptSolutions.com
(Roy Lovejoy) writes:
> >
> >   Man, I gotta be the unluckiest FreeBSD user....
> >
> >   I get an adaptec 2842 card. Floppy port is fried. 
> >   I replace it with a Future Domain TMC-1680 SVP card (SCSI+floppy on one
> >   card). I recalled that Future Domain was one of the supported SCSI cards.
> >   Floppy works fine, get to the FDisk phase of install. FreeBSD don't
> >   understand new SCSI card.
> >
> 
> Like I said before the 16-bit 1680 card is not compatible with the
> Future Domain 8-bit controllers and is not supported. The release notes
> are very explicit about what cards are supported and the 1680 isn't
> one of them. The Adaptec is a better performer than the Future Domain anyhow,
> why not just get an Adaptec that works?
> 

This is *EXACTLY* what I did. I got an Adaptec 2842 & I am quite pleased
with it...

I'm a 15 year Apple veteran (5 yr. ][+, 10 yr. mac), but a unix newbie,
and one of the things <gravely> missing is the hardware plug-n-play.

I realize that many people have machines and are putting FreeBSD on
existing systems, HOWEVER, I do believe people who want to set up a stable
UNIX box from scratch would GREATLY benefit from a FAQ that would describe
HIGHLY STABLE systems, something like:

SMALL: 386, 8 meg ram, 100 meg hd, adaptec 1542
MED: 486, 16 meg ram, 500 meg hd, adaptec 2842, SMC elite 16 enet
LARGE: etc..

where you can give actual part numbers & mfgs' of hardware that MANY
FreeBSD'rs have got up & running WITH MINIMAL TWEAKING.

<whew>

now all I gotta do is get uucp going......
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