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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Future Domain SCSI Date: 8 Jul 1995 00:31:31 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3tkjl3$e9i@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3tki28$d4c@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3tki28$d4c@agate.berkeley.edu>, Ben Scott <cs61a-bo> wrote: >Has anyone used the Future Domain 16-bit SCSI card with BSD? I know the 8-bit >is supposed to work, and I figured the 16-bit would be backward compatible, but >BSD wasn't able to recognize it. Any help would be appreciated. I'm afraid that support for this is still not available. The folks at FD were sort of helpful in that they at least sent me some specs, but they seemed pretty blase' about the whole idea of having FreeBSD support them (the generally attitude I got was "well, Linux supports us and that's all that counts as far as we're concerned") and I was so generally turned off by this that I didn't feel particularly inclined to go spend money on an eval board (needless to say, they weren't inclined to send me one of those either, unlike some other very helpful companies). I don't mean to sound too negative, but me schedule is already more than full enough without going out of my way to support a company's products who by all appearances could care less about it. I'd just as soon the sales go to someone more responsive like Buslogic, who BTW have shown themselves to be more willing to try and correct the problems I reported earlier. I've been contacted by no fewer than 4 people at Buslogic since I sent out my posting and, compared with the total apathy at Future Domain, it's a refreshing difference in corporate style. Jordan