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From: ez003216@dale.ucdavis.edu (Michael Francioch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Is the SB16 SCSI supported yet?
Date: 14 Sep 1995 19:16:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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The last time I looked into messing around with FreeBSD, it looked like a 
truly fun challenge -- with one exception. It seems that the best way of 
installing it, short of downloading all of the binaries from Walnut Creek 
over a 14.4 modem connection (yeech!), is to buy the CD-ROM with XFree86 
and all of the sources on it. 

However, my NEC CD-ROM drive is currently hooked up through the SCSI
controller which is built into my SB-16 card.  I read that (some time ago,
at least) this controller was as yet _not_ supported by FreeBSD. This, of
course, would make attempting to install the OS from CD-ROM a bad joke. 

Is there an out here? I really can't afford to go out and buy a new SCSI 
controller just now.

Any mail would be much appreciated. Thanks

MiKe