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From: pope@edunet.dk (Povl H. Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD with Adaptec 2940 ?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 12:23:21 +0200
Organization: edu!
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References: <411nk7$7vt@mc3.mcnet.ch> <809170712.20021@paul.demon.co.uk> <41ho0u$31p@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
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In article <41ho0u$31p@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de wrote:

: In article <809170712.20021@paul.demon.co.uk>, paul@paul.demon.co.uk
(Paul Civati) writes:
: >Benoit Rossier (Benoit.Rossier@mcnet.ch) wrote:
: >> Is NetBSD for Intel platform support SCSI card Adaptec 2940 ?
: >
: >There is a beta driver for current, yes.
: >
: 
: You can find a really "current" version :-| via anonymous ftp at
: boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de, directory pub/NetBSD/elchware. I had to
: modify Stefans version, because there were to many modifications
: in the current kernel sources.

Is the Adaptec 7850 chip supported ? It is a fast-SCSI controller used on
many higher end Pentium machines. It is not currently supported by Linux
so I am considering a switch to netBSD