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From: rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ultimate BSD PC Hardware Setup
Date: 17 Sep 1995 19:58:54 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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References: <43df2f$id@future.internexus.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>In article <43df2f$id@future.internexus.net> master@future.internexus.net (Laszlo Vecsey) writes:
>
>   I'm looking into buying an Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI-2 HD Controller, and a 
>   Micronics motherboard with a Phoenix Bios. Will I have any problems with 
>   BSD? I've been having a lot of trouble with my current hardware setup and 
>   Linux - kernel panics, inswapper task lockups, etc. I need a stable system.
>
>Personally, I'd buy an NCR 53c810-based SCSI card, or a BusLogic,
>before I'd ever give money to Adaptec.  But, to each his/her own.

Just a little bit curious, but Michael L. VanLoon, how many FreeBSD
systems do you have experience with?  Have you ever tried to connect a
PCI controller to a drive?  I thought you only had EISA experience.
Now the NCR is a fine controller but there are a couple of drives that
it is not happy with, and you really ought to not plant bombs here.

Maybe more to the point, does NetBSD support the Quantum Grand Prix
series?  Or even more to the point, Microsoft?  That's who is paying
your wages these days, right?

Russell

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>  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
>       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
>     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
>                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
>     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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